6/4/2023 0 Comments All summer in a day story![]() ![]() No matter when you arrive, the recipe for success is pretty simple. Once those roads are open - which might not be until July or August this year - you’ll have more options, and traffic circulation in the valley is likely to ease greatly. If you can’t get to the valley on a weekday, consider waiting until later in the summer, when snowplows have cleared and opened Tioga Road (the park’s eastern gateway) and Glacier Point Road (which connects the valley to Glacier Point and Half Dome views). ![]() ![]() Also, for the first time in four years, there’s no reservation requirement for day-trippers to the park this summer, so traffic and parking could be rough. After a brief, partial April closure over flood worries, all that running water remains a risk, and some road and campground closures remained in place as of May 16. With this year’s waterworks, the vistas are doubly staggering.īut with those rewards come challenges for rangers and visitors. The valley was already my favorite portion of my favorite California national park, thanks to Yosemite Falls, Vernal Falls, the Merced River and the great stone face of El Capitan. As May began, more than a dozen falls were coursing from the Sierra into Yosemite Valley, carrying runoff from the snowiest winter in recorded history. Which wonder of the world sounds like a broken faucet? This one, especially now. ![]()
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