Tuolumne Meadows Yosemite National Park

Salimos de Mammoth Lake direcion Yosemite National Park via Tioga Road.

Parando poco a poco, apreciando las vistas del valle desde el alto fuimos llegando abajo a Yosemite Valley.

No visitamos en Park ese dia, fuimos descubriendo la Tioga Road y sus rincones...Tenaya Lake, Olmsted Point View, Tuolumne Meadows (con los Sequoias).< …

The way in which we plan our trips has changed over the years. The first trip was planned partly by using the internet to get some ideas of where we wanted to go (for example, the idea of driving Highway 1 from SF to LA came from a description of the road on the internet) but the actual route was planned with me on my tummy with Collins Map of the …

... giants stadium and the piers going along the bay. We also drove by an original clock/building that survived the great fire. On our way to Yosemite, we stopped to eat and get gas. That was about it. When we got to the park, we drove up to Hetch Hetchy and ...

... in Europe or possibly parts of the Himalaya but it is the sheer SCALE which is so breathtaking. The following day we left Yosemite via the beautiful Tuolumne Meadows to the East of the park – it was to be a stark contrast to what awaited us at our ...

... nicht ganz ohne Jetlag sind wir wieder recht früh wach und machen uns nun zu zweit auf Richtung Yosemite National Park. Vorher noch mal Großeinkauf im Safeway, denn die nächsten drei Tage ist Selbstverpflegung angesagt. Außerdem ...

... . The famous mantle move on the Nutcracker Tuolumne and The Valley: The Duality Another famous area of Yosemite National Park is Tuolumne Meadows (~8500 feet) which is considerably higher in elevation than Yosemite Valley (~4000 ft).  Tuolumne is ...

... center. It like a small town. It has a post office, food court, and a theater. We walked down to the lower falls of Yosemite falls. The waterfall is from snow melt an is the tallest waterfall in America. It stands at half a mile high! We climbed on the ...

... to have a short walk to the enormous rock. The view on the other side of the road reveals a beautiful view of Tuolumne Meadows. Everywhere along the route we found beautiful viewing points, it would take a whole day to visit them all.  ...

... ;only had a 1.5 hour drive before we reached our destination. We hit the Tioga Road and headed northeast from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows, the largest alpine meadow in the Sierra. Its approximate elevation is 8,619 feet, the highest ...

... conditioned Dodge. Then it was back on the road and towards Yosemite. After we left Death Valley, we headed north towards Yosemite National Park. The drive there took us a little longer than expected due to some very windy and steep roads in Death Valley ...

... bus. How cool is that!   When we got back to the Tortoise we drove out to camp, which was out of the park and near Tuolumne Meadows and the Lakes. We made dinner and had a big campfire which was cool. It was pretty cold though, and that night I ...

... fortunate and managed to squeeze into one of the huge capacity sites through a same-day cancellation / waitlist service offered by the national park. If you ever go and can't get in to the valley campgrounds, I highly recommend trying this; it's ...