Free wilderness permits are
available at the Visitor Center and the Wawona and Big Oak Flat
Ranger Stations. Read all information provided. Voluntary registration
cards are available for climbers and day users.
Hiked
Check our personal notes for detailed descriptions of these trails:
| Base of Yosemite Falls |
| Distance: |
.5 miles round trip |
Rating: |
Easy |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
40 feet |
| Trailhead: |
The trailhead is in the Lower Yosemite Fall parking area, near Shuttle Bus Stop #6. |
| Description: |
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| Dog Lake |
| Distance: |
3 miles round trip |
Rating: |
Easy to Moderate |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
800 feet |
| Trailhead: |
The trailhead is a bit hard to find because it is located on the access road to Tuolumne Lodge. Travel east on the Tioga Road over the Tuolumne River bridge. Turn right on the well-marked road to the Lodge. Proceed about a quarter of a mile (past the Ranger Station) to a popular parking lot on the left. Park and head north up the embankment and over the Tioga Road onto the Dog Lake trail. |
| Description: |
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| Gaylor Lakes/Granite Lakes |
| Distance: |
3 to 6 miles round trip |
Rating: |
Easy to Moderate |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
700 to 1000 feet |
| Trailhead: |
The trailhead is off of the parking lot just west of the Tioga Pass Entrance Station on the north side of the Tioga Road. |
| Description: |
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| Lembert Dome |
| Distance: |
2.8 miles round trip |
Rating: |
Moderate to Strenuous |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
900 feet |
| Trailhead: |
The trailhead is a bit hard to find because it is located on the access road to Tuolumne Lodge. Travel east on the Tioga Road over the Tuolumne River bridge. Turn right on the well-marked road to the Lodge. Proceed about a quarter of a mile (past the Ranger Station) to a popular parking lot on the left. Park and head north up the embankment and over the Tioga Road onto the Dog Lake trail. |
| Description: |
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| Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River |
| Distance: |
The distance varies depending on how far you proceed. |
Rating: |
Easy |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
None |
| Trailhead: |
The trailhead is a bit hard to find because it is located on the access road to Tuolumne Lodge. Travel east on the Tioga Road over the Tuolumne River bridge. Turn right on the well-marked road to the Lodge. Proceed about a quarter of a mile (past the Ranger Station) to a popular parking lot on the left. Park and head north up the embankment and over the Tioga Road onto the Dog Lake trail, and proceed south. |
| Description: |
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| Soda Springs |
| Distance: |
1.5 miles round trip |
Rating: |
Easy |
| Elevation: |
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Total Ascent: |
None |
| Trailhead: |
There are two routes to Soda Springs. The first leaves from the parking lot just north of the Tioga Road at road marker T-32, just to the east of the bridge over the Tuolumne River. Follow the gravel road to and around a locked gate. The other trail starts from the north side of the Tioga Road at a cross walk that is just east of the entrance road to the Visitor Center. |
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Not Hiked
- Base of Bridalveil Fall
- Base of Vernal Fall
- Big Oak Flat Road Trail
- Cathedral Lakes
- Chilnualna Fall
- Columbia Rock
- Elizabeth Lake
- Four-Mile Trail
- Glacier Point and Vernal and Nevada Falls
- Glacier Point—Panorama Trail
- Glacier Point to the Valley Floor via Vernal and Nevada Falls
- Glen Aulin
- Grove Parking Lot from the Mariposa Grove Museum
- Half Dome
- Mariposa Grove
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- May Lake
- Mirror Lake
- Mirror Lake Loop
- Mist Trail
- Mono Pass
- Sentinel Dome
- Sunrise Lakes
- Taft Point
- The Grizzly Giant
- Top of Vernal Fall
- Top of Nevada Fall
- Top of Yosemite Falls
- Upper Valley Excursion
- Wawona
- Wawona Meadow Loop
- Wawona Point
- Yosemite Falls Trail
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