Yosemite Paradise Chalet

06/06/2024

The Yosemite National Park's waterfalls will likely reach their "peak flows" within the next few weeks.

04/13/2024

Reservation system schedule below unless you book a place inside the park, i.e., Ahwahnee, Yosemite West, etc.👇🏼

Starting tomorrow, April 13, a reservation is required to drive into the park between the hours of 5 am and 4 pm on certain days through the spring, summer, and fall of 2024. Those days are as follows:

April 13 – June 30: Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays
July 1 – August 16: every day
August 17 – October 27: Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays

Entrance reservations are acquired online at Recreation.gov. Those with camping or lodging reservations for locations inside the park do not need an additional reservation. On official “free entrance days,” such as April 20 as part of , no entrance fees will be charged; however, a reservation to enter the park is still required. Please see the reservation FAQ for more information: go.nps.gov/reserve

Additionally, another spring storm is forecast to arrive tonight bringing moderate to heavy precipitation, including some snow, to Yosemite Valley. Tire chains may be required on park roads. For current road information, including closures and chain restrictions, please call our road status phoneline anytime at 209/372-0200 (then press 1 and 1 again). To learn more about tire chains, please visit go.nps.gov/chains.

04/09/2024

3.27.2024

03/01/2024

Update 1:
Yosemite National Park will partially reopen today, Sunday March 3, at noon. Visitors may enter the park via Highway 41/Wawona Road and Highway 140/El Portal Road. Expect snowy conditions throughout the park.

Big Oak Flat Road (Highway 120 from the west), Badger Pass Road and ski area, and Hetch Hetchy Road will reopen on Monday, March 4, at noon, conditions permitting. Tire chains may be required. Please call 209/372-0200 (then 1, 1) to check road conditions and status.

Wawona Campground and Camp 4 (both first-come, first-served) and Upper Pines Campground (reservation required) will reopen at noon. Be prepared for winter camping (bring a shovel!). Hodgdon Meadow Campground will reopen tomorrow at noon, conditions permitting.

Original Post:
Yosemite National Park will be closed starting tonight at midnight due to a major winter storm. The park will remain closed at least through Sunday at noon (possibly later). Visitors currently in the park should leave as soon as possible, and no later than noon tomorrow, Yosemite National Park will be closed starting tonight at midnight due to a major winter storm. The park will remain closed at least through Sunday at noon (possibly later). Visitors currently in the park should leave as soon as possible, and no later than noon tomorrow, March 1.

The National Weather Service is forecasting several feet of snow throughout the park (Badger Pass may receive over seven feet!) with very high winds.

07/25/2023

07/09/2023

Yosemite is accepting feedback on potential strategies to manage visitor access until September 6, 2023. Submit your comments!

As visitation has been spiking this summer, there is revived discussion about whether attendance caps would be beneficial.

06/24/2023

Bridalveil Fall from Tunnel View

06/24/2023

Yosemite Falls may not dry up this year for only the second time in a decade, according...

06/22/2023

Learn about Yosemite in a whole new way on our open air Yosemite Valley Floor Tour! This two-hour open air tram tour is led by a park ranger and takes you to some of the most iconic spots all around the Valley, with plenty of opportunities to hop off and take photos! Book yours now at https://bit.ly/3PKGvvO

01/25/2023

While California’s storms were devastating in many parts of the state, they blew epic snow and adventure opportunities into the park. Waterfall viewings are off the charts, there are fewer crowds, and conditions are primo for backcountry exploring.

01/16/2023

In a destination as timeless as Yosemite Mariposa County, it may seem on the surface that there wouldn’t be too much new to expect for returning visitors in 2023. But just like the landscape, Yosemite is ever-changing and always provides something new to experience.

01/13/2023

Badger Pass Ski Area Operational Update - 1/12/23

Today is the day folks! WE'RE BACK! Open with regular hours, great snow conditions and a beautiful day!

12/17/2022

Badger Pass Ski Area - Operations Update 12/16/22

Good news!! The Badger Pass Ski Area team is hard at work and we have a new opening date!! Mark your calendars for THURSDAY DECEMBER 22, 2022.

Can't wait to see you out there! ⛷🏂

11/30/2022

For someone who has only been to an ice rink in the city, this will surely knock your socks off.Curry Village Ice Rink is in the heart of Yosemite National Park

11/29/2022

Born during the Depression, this Yosemite ski area "gets" Californians during a...

11/22/2022

For those Yosemite National Park enthusiast, an ice skating rink has just opened.Curry Village Ice Skating Rink is surrounded by trees and mountains that have c

08/03/2022

We can bearly contain our excitement that the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias reopened today! The Mariposa Grove shuttle has resumed operation. Air quality is good to moderate with blue skies.

The following trails remain closed:
🌲 The Washburn Trail (between the Mariposa Grove Welcome Plaza and the Arrival Area).
🌲 The western portion of the Perimeter Trail (from the Galen Clark Tree to near the Grizzly Giant Loop Trail).
🌲 The trail from the Mariposa Grove toward Wawona

Please stay on trails: hazards may exist off trail. Firefighters will continue patrolling the area until the fire is declared out.

Learn more about visiting the Mariposa Grove at https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/mg.htm. A reservation is required to drive into or through Yosemite: https://go.nps.gov/reserve.

And, finally, remember to stay 50 yards away from bears! If a bear approaches you, scare it away immediately by yelling as loudly and aggressively as possible.

07/08/2022

The Washburn Fire is burning near the lower portion of the Mariposa Grove. The fire is about estimated at 60 to 70 acres. Firefighters are suppressing the fire from the ground and air. The Mariposa Grove is closed until further notice. All other areas of Yosemite National Park are open.

06/18/2022

Some of the guided tours are running!

Yosemite Guided Bus Tours are the best way to experience all the wonders that the Park has to offer. Our tours focus on natural history, indigenous peoples, the first non-indigenous settlers, and wildlife.

06/12/2022

05/21/2022

Tioga Road (the continuation of Highway 120 through the park) is scheduled to open to vehicular traffic on Friday, May 27, 2022, at 9 am. A reservation is required to drive into *or through* Yosemite between 6 am and 4 pm through September 30; this includes travelers passing through the park on Tioga Road. Visit https://go.nps.gov/reserve for more information.

Road work has already begun in the Tenaya Lake and Tuolumne Meadows areas. Expect delays of up to 30 minutes during the day and one hour at night from Sunday nights through Friday afternoons.

Glacier Point Road is closed this year due to a major road rehabilitation project.

03/11/2022

Today, March 10, marks the 35-year anniversary of the 1987 Middle Brother rockfall, one of Yosemite’s most notable historical rockfalls. This photo, from the event, shows new rockfall atop a large talus slope built over thousands of years.

At 2:15 pm on March 10, 1987, Ranger Jim Tucker received word that a road crew working on Northside Drive below Middle Brother had witnessed several small rockfalls and heard cracking sounds coming from the cliff. Upon arrival, Tucker witnessed another small rockfall. Sensing a growing hazard, Tucker instructed the road crew to leave the area and ordered traffic stopped at Camp 4. Minutes later, at 2:47 pm, a huge slab of rock broke loose from the top of Middle Brother.

Trail Crew Foreman Jim Snyder and another ranger had set up a spotting scope in Leidig Meadow and were eyewitnesses to the event. Snyder described the cliff “unfolding like the stairs of an escalator” as the giant slab fell onto a prominent ledge and fragmented into thousands of boulders. As the boulders hit the base of the cliff, Snyder's companion yelled, “Run!” Snyder, wanting to run but also wanting to watch the event unfold, tried to do both until he and his companion were enveloped in dust and small rock fragments. Stumbling blindly, they made their way to back to Tucker, who was preparing to send out a search party. When the huge dust cloud finally cleared, nearly 200 feet of Northside Drive was covered in boulders and fallen trees.

The 1987 Middle Brother rockfall was once thought to be the largest historical rockfall in Yosemite but recent advances in photogrammetry allowed geologists to re-examine this. Comparing models of Middle Brother created from old photographs with recent laser scans shows that the rockfall volume was 20,193 cubic meters (713,110 cubic feet), much smaller than the original estimate and smaller than other historical rockfalls. Nevertheless, the 1987 Middle Brother rockfall is notable because of its still-impressive volume, its location directly above Northside Drive, and Ranger Tucker's decisive life-saving actions that day.

For more information on how geologists measured the rockfall volume, see https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/upload/Guerin-et-al-2020-Geomorphology-sm.pdf.

03/04/2022

03/04/2022

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Park entry requires reservations May 20-Sept 30, but we will provide the necessary documentation needed to enter Yosemite.

03/04/2022

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Park entry requires reservations May 20-Sept 30, but we will provide the necessary documentation needed to enter Yosemite.

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02/16/2022

If you stay at Yosemite Paradise Chalet in Yosemite West area, you will not need to get a reservation pass. We will provide the documentation to enter for your stay.

Beginning Friday, May 20, 2022, Yosemite National Park will implement a temporary peak-hours reservation system. Building on lessons learned during the summer reservation systems in 2020 and 2021, the peak hours reservation system is designed to spread visitation out and reduce chronic congestion in the park. The reservation requirement will be in place through September 30, 2022.

Park visitors will need a reservation to enter the park between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. seven days per week (this includes people passing through the park). Visitors entering the park outside of the peak hours are not required to have a reservation.

Visit go.nps.gov/faq for more information.

01/04/2022

Six 2022 free-entrance days to national parks and other federal lands:

* Monday, January 17, 2022 : Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
* Monday, February 21, 2022 : President’s Day
* Saturday, June 11, 2022 : National Get Outdoors Day
* Thursday, August 4, 2022 : Great American Outdoors Day
* Saturday, September 24, 2022 : National Public Lands Day
* Friday, November 11, 2022 : Veteran’s Day

Details on fees and annual passes, plus rules for Veteran’s Day are in this article.

Here are the six 2022 free-entrance days for national parks and monuments in Northern California. Hike your favorite trails in Yosemite National Park, Muir Woods National Monument, Lassen Volcanic National Park, and many other places.

12/19/2021

Badger Pass is now open!

Badger Pass Ski Area has it all, and makes it easy—from getting here to renting equipment to taking lessons. Here you will learn about all the winter activities and how you can experience them.