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Resources For Visiting Yosemite

This is where you'll find helpful information such as websites and phone numbers, friends groups, cooperating associations, and even a few books that might make your visit to Yosemite a bit richer.

Yosemite National Park: www.nps.gov/yose

Park Entrance Reservations (required): https://nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/reservations.htm

Aramark Destinations at Yosemite: www.yosemitepark.com

June Lake Loop Chamber of Commerce http://junelakeloop.org

Lee Vining Chamber of Commerce: http://www.leevining.com/

Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce: http://www.mariposachamber.org

Merced Visitor Services: http://www.merced-chamber.com/

Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau: http://www.visittuolumne.com

Yosemite Chamber of Commerce: http://www.groveland.org/

Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau: http://www.yosemitethisyear.com/chambers.php

Information about bringing pets: https://nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/pets.htm

Fees

All entrance fees are payable by credit or debit only.

Standard Pass:

  • Seven-day vehicle access: $35
  • Seven-day motorcycle access: $30
  • Seven-day per person access (pedestrians and bicyclists): $20

Yosemite National Park Annual Pass: $70

American the Beautiful Annual Pass (including Senior Passes): FREE - $80 

Organizations And Businesses 

  • Commercial Sedan (1-6 seats): $45 - $125
  • Commercial Van (7-15 seats): $125
  • Commercial Mini-Bus (16-25 seats): $200
  • Commercial Motor Coach (26+ seats): $300
  • Non-Commercial Group (16+ persons): $300
  • Education/Academic Group: FREE


For more detailed fee information, click on the Fees heading above.

Friends Organization

The Yosemite Conservancy, an organization recently created by the merger of the Yosemite Fund and Yosemite Association, supports the park by funding various programs and offering field courses for visitors. During 2009, the new organization provided educational programming, trail maintenance, bird research, and other help to the tune of nearly $6 million in projects and programs.

Books Of Interest

Ansel Adams in the Parks

Long after his death we continue to celebrate the brilliance of Ansel Adams, who arguably defined landscape photography, often while working in national parks to capture the magnificence of nature.

To read more, visit this page.

My First Summer in the Sierra

A century after John Muir published "My First Summer in the Sierra," a 100th anniversary edition of the book has been released, one with striking photography.

To read more, visit this page.

Repairing Paradise: The Restoration Of Nature In America's National Parks

Repairing Paradise. That's a somewhat inauspicious title for a book that examines how to restore natural settings in the national parks. But in light of many scenarios that are playing out across the National Park System -- from parks being overrun by elk, deer, and even people to ecosystem subterfuge -- repairs are exactly what need to be made.

To read more, visit this page.

Gloryland

In his first novel, Gloryland, Yosemite National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson comes full circle.

To read more, visit this page.

The National Parks, Our American Landscape

If the cover photo of The National Parks, Our American Landscape, doesn't encourage you to call in sick and head into the national parks, well, perhaps one of the hundreds of other images inside this book will.

Gracing the cover is an image Ian Shive captured in Montana of Glacier National Park, one of a lone backpacker on a rocky outcrop gazing out across a panoramic landscape of blue lakes, green forests, dramatic mountains. Flip the book over and you're looking at a similarly breathtaking image from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

To read more, visit this page.

Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks

Television shows love to portray park rangers as fit and polite, beaming dazzling smiles, displaying knowledge that knows no bounds, nerves of steel, and with dashing personalities. And then there are the realities, as Andrea Lankford describes in her latest book, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks.

To read more, visit this page.

The Changing Range of Light, Portraits of the Sierra Nevada

A gorgeous new book of photography that captures the seasons of the High Sierra has arrived, but it comes with a pausing message that this beautiful landscape is changing before our eyes.

To read more, visit this page.

Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite

Death is the final appointment we can't avoid, the one we most regret. And yet we're fascinated with tragic deaths such as those that occur in the parks. Indeed, posts on this site about deaths in the parks draw large readership. For those fascinated by such stories, Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite is a must-read.

To read more, visit this page.

Guardians of The Valley: John Muir And The Friendship That Saved Yosemite

A library of books has been written about John Muir, many of which mention Robert Underwood Johnson, but not many adequately describe his long collaboration with Muir. In this book, Dean King remedies that oversight.

To read more, visit this page.

Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers & Nature at Risk

For anyone who has spent just a few days in Yosemite National Park, know that rock climbing and rock climbers are an important part of the history of this legendary park. It literally goes back to the Second Great Age of Discovery (if not further) when geologists Clarence King and Josiah Whitney scrambled from one Sierra peak to the next in search of a knowable “earth age.”

To read more, visit this page.

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