Lodging In Yosemite

Yosemite offers an incredible diversity of lodging possibilities, from the palatial Ahwahnee Hotel to the barebones "Housekeeping Camp."  Where you wind up depends as much on your budget as on your timing. Between the Wawona Hotel near the south entrance of the park to the tent cabins at Tuolumne Meadows, the park's lodging possibilities reflect the tastes and personalities of Yosemite visitors.

Of course, while there are hundreds of rooms in the park, the popularity of Yosemite requires that you make your reservations many months to even a year in advance if you wish to be in the park in the room of your choice on the dates of your choice. You can, however, find plenty of wonderful accommodations in the landscape surrounding the park.

Managing much of the in-park lodging is concessioner Aramark Destinations, offering the gamut from tent cabins, to wood cabins, to motel rooms, to palatial suites. Prices vary depending upon time of year, with the highest prices offered during the peak summer season.

The tent cabins that you'll find in Curry Village in the Yosemite Valley, White Wolf Lodge (closed until further notice due to severely-damaged sewer lines), and Tuolumne Meadows are just that: canvas tents large enough to hold a bed or two and a table set on a wooden platform. Curry Village has electric lighting but no electrical outlets and a few cabins are heated but available only during the winter months. The other tent cabin lodgings offer wood-burning stoves but no electricity. Showers and restrooms are in separate buildings at all of these lodgings.

Though Curry Village has a long-favored status with many Yosemite visitors, no doubt in large part due to its valley location, these facilities are over-rated. What you have is a crowded city of tents and cabins with little privacy, the sounds of shouting and laughing kids, and community bathhouses that struggle to handle the traffic.

Rates start at $189 a night in Curry Village (depending on the season) for an unheated tent cabin (there are 403 of them) to $195 heated.. The Village also offers 18 standard motel-style rooms for $310.99 per night, and 14 Curry Village Cabins (aka Yosemite Cabins) go for $297.91-$225 (price varies depending upon whether or not the cabin comes with a private bath). ADA accessible tent cabins, wood cabins, and rooms are available.

The facilities at Tuolumne Meadows, while the same tent cabins found at Curry Village, offer a more relaxed, less crowded feel. Open mid-June to mid-September, the 69 tent cabins start at $150 per night.

Housekeeping Camp’s units are more rustic, consisting of three concrete walls, a concrete floor, a canvas ceiling, and a canvas curtain you can pull across the opening. there are 266 of these units, with rates around $109 before taxes. Open April 11-October 12, 2025.

The Yosemite Valley Lodge offers 245 traditional motel-style rooms, some ADA accessible, in a series of one- and two-story motel-type buildings centered around a registration building and a small commercial area. Rooms start at $362 per night, again price varying depending upon the season. The same room reserved in late October can cost about $30 less. The buildings at Yosemite Lodge are fairly close together, but not to the extent of those at Curry Village.

The Ahwahnee, open year-round and considered by many travelers as the crown jewel of national park lodges, is Yosemite’s flagship property. Opened in 1927 as a luxury hotel and used during World War II as a naval convalescent hospital, the Ahwahnee has 121 rooms combined (main hotel and nearby cottages) renting for $578 to $2,249 per night during peak season.

Traveler contributing photographer and writer Rebecca Latson stayed in one of the Ahwahnee Hotel's Standard Rooms for a single night in late October 2025. She paid $534 including taxes and reported her room was overrated for that price. The furniture was dated, the carpet was worn, the wallpaper/paint was peeling in parts along the ceiling, and she would have been happy with a Keurig-type coffee maker rather than the confusing Nespresso Zenius machine in her room (which comes with instructions because of its complexity). There was no fridge or microwave in the standard room. Perhaps the Classic Room might be a step up in more than just the view, but that would have cost $768 for one night.

The Wawona Hotel features 104 guest rooms, about half with a private bathroom ($248 per night before taxes) and half without ($164 per night before taxes). The main building with the registration desk, lobby, and dining room has 28 guest rooms, all but one on the second floor.

Note: Beginning December 2, 2024, the historic Wawona Hotel within Yosemite National Park will close until further notice to allow the National Park Service (NPS) to conduct a comprehensive condition assessment on the hotel complex. The NPS recently undertook a roof replacement project on the main hotel building which revealed the need for more intensive investigation and assessment of the hotel.

There's also a more unique lodging option in Yosemite, but you have to hike to reach it. The High Sierra Camps (Closed during the 2025 season) offer a nice alternative to sleeping on the ground when traveling through the park's backcountry. These camps -- Glen Aulin, May Lake, Sunrise, Merced Lake, and Vogelsang -- are roughly 5.7-10 miles (9.2 - 16.1 km) apart from one another. Once you reach camp, you have a tent cabin for sleeping and a main tent to take meals.

To land a cot in one of these camps, though, you must enter a lottery.

Now, there are other lodgings in the park that you can call home during your stay. The Redwoods in Yosemite offers year-round vacation rentals in Wawona, California, inside of the national park. Whether you are looking for a cozy cabin for two or a large home for the entire family, Redwoods in Yosemite offers all types of Yosemite lodging.

Yosemite’s Scenic Wonders offer rental options including houses close to the park, and you can also check this website for many other lodging options in addition to these listed here.

Elsewhere, outside the park's Tioga Road entrance station, you'll find the Tioga Pass Resort (currently closed due to structural damage from flooding in 2019 and with no access to the resort’s website).

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Lodging in the Parks: Tioga Pass Resort

Though geographically outside Yosemite National Park in the Inyo National Forest, this historic way station is rightly part of the park experience if your visit at all touches on the eastern side near Tioga Pass. Dating to the early 1910s when it didn’t take a hardscrabble miner too long to realize he could make more money from the fledgling tourist industry than from hard-to-find ore bodies, the Tioga Pass Resort is a rustic melting pot of travelers.

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Before you decide to spend a night at any of these lodges, remember to check out the reviews. TripAdviser is a great place to start and will help you determine where you might wish to stay while visiting Yosemite.