Complete Travel Guide for Yosemite Valley | Yosemite National Park
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- My complete travel guide for Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park. Check out these classic 16 stops located in Yosemite Valley. Most of them can be seen in the span of one day. Videos are from a compilation of two summer trips (2009, 2017) and one winter trip (2022). The compete list is located in the first comment.
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1. Welcome Sign
2. Tunnel View
3. Glacier Point
4. El Capitan
5. Yosemite Fall
6. Valley Loop Trail
7. Valley Chapel
8. Valley Bridges
9. Merced River
10. Vernal Fall
11. Nevada Fall
12. Half Dome
13. Yosemite Village
14. Ribbon Fall and Horsetail Fall
15. The Ahwahnee
16. Bridalveil Fall
Other options: Hike to the top of Yosemite Falls, walk the trails in the meadow, Taft Point and Sentinel Dome.
How many days would your recommend for this itineary?
@@luckylee5026 Eliminating half dome, it can be completed in 2 full days, 3 at a very leisurely pace.
@@AmericasParks Thank you! :)
Can we drive all points or is there any tour bus
@@KidsInfo697 The bus was not running when we were there (winter). We drove to all of them. Believe you can in the summer as well.
I’m from Italy , and we have amazing natural beauty as well as the most beautiful of them all Switzerland right above us . But when I came here to Yosemite it was incredible how beautiful and look alike it is to Switzerland truly incredible
Switzerland is so beautiful so am encouraged by your comparison! Thanks for watching the video!
@@AmericasParks Yosemite isn’t as beautiful as Switzerland but I just reminded of me so much . Ur welcome
Norway is much better than your italy
@@lucaviotti6285 Yosemite is huge and it is a lot more beautiful than Switzerland, just the giants sequoias are more impressive than anything Switzerland has to offer. You shoud see the whole Park before you opine I traveled all around Switzerland ,it is beautiful but there is no comparison with Yosemite.
God bless Pastor Randy. I hope you are well.
Yippy! You showed the most beautiful of them all, Yosemite National Park!🥰 Some of God's most magnificent work, for sure.
Amen! Blessed by those words!
My favorite place on earth. Another great spot... even though everybody discouraged me from doing it... was the hike to the top of Yosemite Falls. My opinion, brutal hike (especially coming down), but TOTALLY WORTH being at the top!
Hey Joe, almost added the YF hike as another possibility. Haven't experienced that one personally, but hope to one of these days! Enjoy your week!
I went to Yosemite 4 months ago. It is unreal and spectacular
The Chapel was one of my favorite parts! So picturesque in the forest.
Good taste, Hailey!
In the foot steps of the magical John Muir! I grew up in the central valley of California. Just a2 hr. drive to Yosemite. It was the very first National Park I had ever visited. It's inspired, poetic beauty evaded me at the time. The folly of youth. It wasn't until my daughter was 2 that I returned and was able to appreciate and more importantly pass on that beauty of my daughter. No shock that I say how much I love your videos. These videos for some reason just get me so excited to jump in the car and just go. Thank you for the weekly inspiration my friend !! God Bless you ! and much love
God bless you, my friend! Can't receive a better word of encouragement or inspiration to make the videos than what you just stated! Happy to know they serve a higher purpose than mere information and entertainment.
Epic guide sir! We were only able to check out a few of these areas on our last trip back in 2017 but you made our list of to-dos even bigger! Thanks for sharing your adventures and wisdom! - Shane
Much appreciated, Shane! Hope you guys are doing well, my friend!
Thank you Pastor Randy for this amazing window into what I believe to be our nations most beautiful park.I have not yet merited to visit Yosemite but I really hope to visit in the near future.
Hope you can make it out there... as you said, one of the best!
Your guides are always so comprehensive & look amazing!!! A great resource for our trips! Thank you!!
Thanks so much, Michelle! Very happy to know you find the videos helpful!
What a great video! I loved that trip we did to Yosemite, especially that half dome hike!!
One of my favorites! Something I'll always cherish with you!
Certainly draws you in and makes you want to go! These are helpful tips.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great overview of Yosemite Valley! It was good how you combined the footage of some of your past trips to Yosemite into one informative video!
Such a great NP, Eric! Have a blessed week!
Beautiful 🎉
Well that was an awesome breakdown of the park! Can't wait to get out there one day! Thanks for sharing all your experience and knowledge with us!
Appreciate that, Nick! One of the best NP's!
Glacier Point is one of my favourite views as well. We took the parks bus up here and did a fabulous walk down to the valley with magical views and wonderful waterfalls for company. Some of the walks shown in the valley are so delightful. Enjoyed your presentation.
Thank you, my friend! Right on with Glacier Point... breathless the first time I beheld that view!
Beautiful video, Randy. Thank you. I was blessed to have visited this place Summer 2018 all the way from Scotland. Majestic and unforgettable, I think of it often. Your video gives me such a longing to be back there! Some day…🤞
Happy to hear that, my friend! One of America's finest!
One of the best national Park in the US. The sequoias are amazing
Right on... absolutely stunning! Thanks for watching!
Wow, so many great places to see in this part. Amazing that you have had the chance to go and visit on so many occasions!
Absolutely love this Park! Three incredible trips there!
What a great and thorough explanation of all Yosemite has to offer. Awesome video!
Appreciate that, Kayla!
Well done and very informative! Was there in 2010, a lot special memories! Your video brought a lot of that back! Love Yosemite! Thanks!
Happy to hear that, Gary!
Great video Randy! This will continue to be a great reference for those of us who plan to visit someday. Don't know when that might be for me, but it's on the list for sure!
Thanks, Andrew! Hope you guys can get out there... and congratulations on the new special addition to the family!
Watching this makes me miss Yosemite so much 🥺 Can't wait to go back in the summer 🥰 Thanks for sharing 🙏 God bless.
Have a great trip this summer! God bless you as well!
Thanks for the great video on Yosemite. My wife and I have been there twice. Once in the fall when most of the falls were pretty dry and just last year in early May when the falls were flowing strong. Much prefer the spring. Thanks again and God bless you and your family.
Thanks for the kind words, James! Happy to hear you've experience this wonderful gem! Have a blessed week!
Randy, this is an outstanding overview. Yosemite is still on our list of parks to visit (even though we have been to over 100 NPS site, this one remains for us to see). THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS AND EXPERIENCE, . . . Mike
With all your travels, can't believe you haven't been there. Truly saving one of the best for the end!
Awesome video, Randy! It made me even more excited to spend a month in the eastern sierras and the surrounding areas this summer. Yosemite truly is one of the most beautiful national parks in the country. I’d also suggest clouds rest as a place to visit at Yosemite, though it’s only accessible a few months out of the year.
Really appreciate that, Emma! What an epic trip you have planned! Enjoy!
Yeah, the Eastern Sierra and the Owens Valley are actually not that well explored by most. It has its own beauty
My aunt treated my parents and I to that Ahwanee Hotel Restaurant in October 2010 (I just checked Facebook for date lol). I remember eating my burger and thinking, "Man, this is ~$3 dollars a bite, or equivalent to 20 McChickens". Awesome narration and flow on this one. Your friendly vocal tone would be ideal for airport or store closing announcements. "Attention customers, our store will be closing in 10 minutes, please bring....". I used to do them at Home Depot a looooong time ago.
What a wonderful memory to have stayed at the Ahwahnee! Nice compliment on the voice part too! :)
What a beautifully presented tour guide, thank you!
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video!
I'm at Yosemite I'm staying for around 3-5 days I hope to do most of these while I'm here and more, great video
Glad you found the video useful! Hope you had a great trip!
Thank you for another fun and very informative video. Blessings!
Thanks, Bill! Have a blessed week!
Great video. Thank you for sharing.
Appreciate that Marcel!
You did a beautiful job narrating your experience so much to the point of me wanting to visit the park asap! Thank you for sharing!
Really happy to hear that - thank you! Yosemite is amazing!
Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Thank you, Randy. I really enjoyed the Yosemite Park video and the excellent narration with all the excellent information. Your videos are always a great Saturday treat. God Bless you always... Robin :-)
Really happy to hear that, Robin!
Thank you for all these inspiring videos you posted on CZcams. Wife and I are 100% inspired by your amazing videos, and we are planned to visit all the NPs and some NMs west coast this coming April 2022.
Appreciate the kind words! What an epic goal... hope it comes together with safety and much enjoyment!
Beautiful
Thanks much, Eden!
Wow awesome thanks so much for sharing. Absolutely beautiful
Glad you enjoyed it, Darlene!
Very beautiful park
Right on! You have good taste!
Amigo aquí otra vez viendo tus videos! , bendiciones a toda esa grandeza natural y a ustedes!
Thank you for the kind words! Nice to have you join the channel!
Thank you so much for making a very helpful video for someone who’s coming in the spring and looking for dinner information on a short stay. So many people to travel videos with music and no explanation and this just really fits the bill.
Really appreciate the positive feedback! Enjoy your time in beautiful Yosemite!
breathtaking place.
Right on, Kazi! Have a great week!
I’m always in awe with Yosemite National park, we stay 3 hrs away and visit 3 times a year and still not over it!!! Thanks for this beautiful video and now you have another subscriber
Great words and welcome to the channel!
Been many years, but my brother and I went up to the top of Half Dome with a half a box of shortbread cookies one day. High school times. But an exhilarating view I'll never forget! Nice video.
Thanks! What an incredible memory! Amazing what our bodies can accomplish when we were younger!
Always great info. Always great videos.
Really appreciate that!
Spectacular! 🤩
Thanks, Debra! Enjoy your weekend!
Love your level of detail. Fantastic!!
Appreciate the kind feedback!
Amazing 🤩
Thanks for watching!
Wow. Cool. Thanks.
Appreciate that!
The falls look incredible. Nice job.
Such a special National Park! Thanks for watching!
Thank You for the Video...🤍💙🤍
Glad you found the video useful!
Thanks for your video! Cheers from Switzerland
Much appreciated, and all the best from the US!
Great highlight video. I attended service in the chapel once. Was a park Ranger in 09’. Such a great testimony of what God has made!
What a cool experience to be in that chapel for a service! Appreciate your testimony for the Lord!
Gr8 info MrRandy👍🏻
Thanks Mark!
Great video! The only hikes I would add are the trails to Taft Point and Sentinel Dome! The trail head is on the way to Glacier Point. Easy hikes, fantastic views.
Thanks for the additional input, Michael. Still need to hit those hikes! Will add them to the list in the pinned comment.
Just subscribed caught my attention thank you for sharing this spectacular & amazing place. What views!!! It’s in my bucket list. 👍
Really happy to hear that! Welcome to the channel!
Amazing video bro . Tunnel View says it all
Appreciate that Donnie!
Thank you for putting together such an informative video. I hope to Yosemite someday
Happy to hear that, Dee!
Thank you for introducing this beautiful national park! I will be going right away tomorrow!
You are welcome... and great to hear! Hope you have a nice time!
Thank you so much for this and all your content. You inspired us to hike the South Kaibab to Bright angel 3 years ago and we’ve been chasing new adventures ever since.
Thank you for inspiring us to push ourselves to do things that we may have doubted in the past.
I often hear your voice saying, what the mind can conceive, the body can achieve.
We’re spending a week in this amazing place for our honeymoon in May this year. We can’t wait!!
Your videos are awesome thanks for providing such a great resource, I'm visiting Yosemite for the second time in August from way down in New Zealand, and your tip on reservations saved me some major headaches as I had not realized they now had a reservation system just like some other parks, got mine now so I am good to go, you're a legend cheers dude if you are ever down this way I'd be happy to give you tips on some awesome kiwi hikes.
Thank you, my friend! Glad to learn of your kind hospitality and the usefulness of this video. Have a super trip to Yosemite!
I'm early in the process of planning a trip to visit Yosemite, Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks so naturally I'm watching your videos for information. I'm hoping to go the first or second week of May 2024. I'll check with the park but I plan on visiting Yosemite during the week so I won't have to make reservations. I've been a subscriber for a couple of years and I always enjoy your videos. Thank you!!
Thank you very much, Debra! Hard to beat Yosemite. Appreciate your love for the channel and hope you enjoy your trip!
Thank you!!
Glad you found the video helpful!
Loved the video. Very informative and scenic.😊
Thank you very much!
Great Video, Thanks for the informations. A nature Wonder is this Park. :-)
Thanks, Matthias!
We will be there next week!!! Thank you for the info…!!
Happy to hear that. Enjoy your trip!!
Thanks for your sharing, now I want to go to Yosemite again 😊
You have good taste! This is such an amazing place!
Great video! That's my favorite place in the world!
Thanks, Rafael! Good taste- Yosemite is one of the best!
Thank you so much for posting this video, we are going in two weeks!
My pleasure! Hope you have a wonderful trip!
awesome video!
Really appreciate that!
Going there next month, this is one of the most informative videos I've seen!
Appreciate that, Lili! Have a great trip!
Thanks and shared to friends
Appreciate that!
@@AmericasParks I am from Hong Kong ! Plan to go there February 2025
I've watched 7 or 8 Yosemite breakdowns and this was the best! You've earned a subscriber!
That is really wonderful to hear, Erin! Thanks! If you're planning a trip out there, hope it's a memorable one!
One of the wonder of the world...
Right on, my friend!
Great job. You did squeeze a lot into one vid. 👏👍
I love YNP. From my door to the Arch Rock gate is 90 min drive. I buy my "all park pass" every year and USE it.
If I may, add a tip for visitors?
Prepare to get an early start each day. Sunlight not sunrise. Makes your day last longer and beat the tourists to the trails. 😎😉
Thanks for the kind words and great suggestion! Hope you keep making wonderful memories at Yosemite!
Reminds me of Andean Patagonia here in Argentina ❤
You have a beautiful country!
Well done
Appreciate that!
Beautiful video 👌 ✅ 👍
Thanks Randy!
阁下做的视频真棒，比优胜美地公园做的宣传片还好，欣赏就是一种享受。谢谢了。
That was very kind of you! I really appreciate your encouraging words!
My favorite park ! Good job buddy.
You have good taste, my friend! Thanks, and have a blessed Lord's Day!
@@AmericasParks nothing like a good Sabbath!
We spent two nights / three days in Yosemite during our 2016 trip to California. It was hot touching 100 degrees in the middle of the day so we mostly drove around stopping at each spot. We did hike to see the main water falls. This video brought back great memories of our trip from Australia.
Really happy to hear that, Vijay!
@@AmericasParks where did you stay?
I really enjoyed your video. 🤩⭐️
Thanks for Sharing! 👍🏼 💕
Greetings from Albania. 🇦🇱
Thank you and greetings back from the USA! Enjoy your week!
Most intelligent and informative guide through I have ever watched on CZcams besides the Scientific documentaries, LOL. Awesome and Thank you.
Really appreciate those kind and encouraging words, AJ! Glad you found the video useful!
Panoramic Trail Glacier to Valley.
When water flows. Has one uphill section.
Illouette Nevada and Vernal Falls.
10 miles. To go up to Nevada and back is 7 miles or more. You can go up Vernal to bottom of Nevada, up.
You can come down on the upper trail.
Either go down to Vernal or down entire route it comes out at lower bathroom.
The left side goes down goes past water tank down road.
I thought the park was unreal but man what a feat of engineering getting that tunnel built through solid rock . A place I would love to visit and stopping at Ahwahnee for the duration would top it off in big style! Not 100% sure but I read in the paper last week about a hiker getting mauled by a grizzly in this park - terrifying, especially amongst so much beauty, cheers Alan
Hey Alan, didn't hear about the tragic encounter with the bear. Very rare, but those sad events do occur. Hope all is well with you and the family!
Wow, This looks like a nice place. Yeah, This place is heaven. There are big meadows, There are big mountains, There are so many forests and There is a great river. There are many beautiful places on this planet and This is one of them. Yeah, This is a beautiful place in the world. Thank you so much for this video, I really appreciate it. By the way, The view from the top of those mountains must be very beautiful. 🏞️🏞️🏞️👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🙂
Really enjoyed reading your kind words!
I'm a travel youtuber too and I really enjoyed your video. Subscribed!
Much appreciated! All the best to you with your channel!
Sorry for being a little late to the party bud.As I have mentioned, Yosemite is my personal favorite even though I still have so much to see there.2 of our daughters ( Kaylie and Jessie) went there recently as well.Without me! I feel betrayed! Love how you used newer and older footage.cant wait to hear what you have planned for this year!
Thanks, Robert! Nice to see your daughters carrying on the tradition you instilled in them!
Hey Randy and others.....haven't commented much but have been following along....very interesting video and narration.....May have a chance this Summer to visit Yosemite, as my Son and his Wife have left Chicago and moved to Sacramento....Well...all the best to you and your Family from Hank and Pam of South Texas
Hey Hank, if you get the opportunity to visit Yosemite, I'd definitely go for it. IMHO, one of the best National Parks. God bless!
Aloha! I went to Niagara Falls on the Canada side but this park is another breathtaking beauty. I want to see this hopefully in the near future.
Hope a visit works out for you! Definitely a sight to see!
It is a haul up to Half Dome or Clouds. 20 plus miles out and back. Murder when hot.
Great video! Also, I officially hit 500 subscribers!
Way to go, Eric! Big milestone. The early subs are always the hardest!
I want to go to there
Hope you can one of these days!
We all need a dad like randy! 😭 mine won’t even leave the state to come spend time with me.
Those words really mean a lot to me! I am sorry to hear about your father... kind of reminds me of mine. I know he loved me, but in some ways, vowed not to be like him with my children. Hang it there. Sounds like you have a great heart!
@@AmericasParks i appreciate it bud! Your videos have encouraged me to go more outdoors and visit all the National parks in America.
Great video and lovely place to visit! I heard Glacier Point is currently closed, is it still worth to visit Yosemite now?
Yes, that's a bummer, but 100% sure it's still worth visiting the park!
Yup at 1:21 I felt that elevation woo😊
Happy to hear that!
I'm heading to Mammoth lakes this weekend and thinking of shooting up to Yosemite on our last day of vacation. Do you know if the 120 Tioga road is open?
Not sure, check with the Park. It was closed when we were there last month. Have a great trip!
Hello! Thank you for making this video. I am going in mid August with a campervan, coming from lake Tahoe. Where do you think I can stay in or near the park if I have not reserved a place to park and sleep ? Thank you! I do have an America the beautiful annual pass, do I need to still get any other pas ? Thanks
Hi Wesley! Here's the information regarding park reservations: www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/reservations.htm As it pertains to camping in the park, those site fill up with seconds of being available. I've only stayed (locally) outside the park once. Check out Indian Flat. www.indianflatrvpark.com/
if you’re going from one trail to another that’s very far do you normally drive to the other side or what are some options? for example, glacier point to then cathedral beach? I’m trying to follow some suggestions for an itinerary and i’m wondering how people go from place to place. sorry if this is a silly question. going for the first time saturday for my bday :)
Sorry, just catching you question now. In the winter (when we were there) you could drive and park your car. In the summer, I believe you'll use the park shuttle. Hope you enjoy your trip... HappyBirthday!
Thanks alot sir, really well explained. A small question, planning to visit LA on November with wife and 2 years old kid! Will the park be good 1 day stop or it's not for toddlers. Thanks alot again, appreciate it
Thank you! If you stay with many (not all) of the suggested items in this video you'll be fine. Obviously they won't find much enjoyment, but you can keep them safe and have an enjoyable time.
What about Mariposa Giants Sequoias Grove and the Bus Shuttle
Great area indeed, but as I mentioned in the beginning of the video, I confined this list to activities within Yosemite Valley itself.