Top 10 Tips for Visiting Yosemite National Park (Travel Guide)
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Here are our Top 10 tips for visiting Yosemite National Park video! We stopped by Yosemite as part of our Pacific Coast Highway trip. Below is a link to the highlight video of the whole trip as well as the itinerary. I've included our lodging, restaurants, hikes, and everything else we did! Thanks for watching and I hope this helps!
Highlight Video
• Pacific Coast Highway,...
Intro: 0:00
Tip 10. Plan Ahead: 0:45
Tip 9. Days to Spend: 1:49
Tip 8. Visit During Summer/Fall: 3:01
Tip 7. Lodging: 4:12
Tip 6. Restaurants/Breweries: 5:55
Tip 5. Favorite Hikes: 8:26
Tip 4. Early Bird Gets the Worm: 10:54
Tip 3. Wildlife: 12:55
Tip 2. Sunrise/Sunset: 14:29
Tip 1. Enjoy It/Extra Tips: 15:56
Closing: 17:36
Credits/Outtakes: 18:05
Day 1 - Fly into Medford
- Stop by Costco for alcohol, snacks, fruit, water
- Stay @ VRBO Cabin (www.vrbo.com/1926661?noDates=...) - 8/10
Day 2 - Crescent City, CA
- Jedidiah Smith State Park - 7/10
- Trails
- Stout Memorial Grove (0.7 miles) - 8/10
- Simpson-Reed Trail (0.8 miles) - 7/10
- Drive Howland Hill Road - 8/10
- Lunch at Seaquake Brewing - 7.5/10
- Other Food options
- Port O Pints
- Good Harvest Cafe
- Crescent Seafood
- House of Jambalaya
- Battery Point Lighthouse - 7/10
- Stay @ VRBO Cabin (same as above)
Day 3 - Drive From Crescent to Mendocino
- Trees of Mystery (Paul Bunyan) - 4/10
- Klamath River Overlook - Too foggy to see - ?/10
- Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway Drive - 8/10
- Big Tree - 7.5/10
- Ah-Pah - 7/10
- Lady Bird Johnson Grove (1.3 miles) - 9/10
- Fern Canyon Trail (0.5 miles) - 9/10
- Lunch at Cafe Waterfront (Eureka) - 7/10
- Other food options
- Brick and Fire Bistro
- Ramon’s Bakery
- Lost Coast Brewery
- Humbodlt State Park - 9/10
- Avenue of the Giants - 9/10
- Shrine Drive Thru Tree ($10) - 4/10
- Founders Grove Nature Trail (0.5 mile) - 8/10
- Leggett Chandlier Drive Thru Tree ($10) - 4.5/10
- Glass Beach at Fort Bragg - 6.5/10
- Dinner @ Patterson's Pub (Mendocino) - 8/10
- Other food options
- Cafe Beaujolais
- Luna Trattoria
- Mendocino Cafe
- Wild Fish
- Trillium
- Stay @ Blue Door Inn - 8.5/10
Day 4 - Drive from Mendocino to Yosemite
- Lunch at Around the horn brewing company - 8/10
- Other food options west of Yosemite entrance
- Iron Door Saloon
- Lucky Buck Cafe (breakfast only?)
- Priest Station cafe (lunch only?)
- Stay @ Rush Creek Lodge - 9/10
Day 5 - Yosemite
- Vernal Falls Trail (3.5 miles, moderate) - 9/10
- Picnic for lunch at Sentinel Meadows - 8/10
- Lower Yosemite Falls Trails (1 miles, easy) - 7.5/10
- Other Trails
- Upper Yosemite Falls (7.2 miles - hard)
- Sentinel Dome Trail (2.1 miles - easy, OPEN from May to September)
- Glacier Point Trail (0.6 miles - easy, OPEN from May to September)
- Dinner at Rush creek dining (make reservation) - 8/10
- Other food options
- Ahwahnee Dining Room
- Yosemite Lodge Restaurants
- Stay @ Rush Creek Lodge - 9/10
Day 6 - Yosemite
- Sunrise at Tunnel View - 9/10
- Mirror Lake via Valley Loop Trail (6.1 miles, easy) - 6/10
- Artist Point Trail (0.5 miles, easy) - 7/10
- Picnic for lunch on grass below El Capitan - 8.5/10
- Dinner at Southgate brewing company - 8/10
- Other food options
- Smokehouse 41
- Sugar Pine Pizza
- Erna’s Elderberry House
- Stay @AirBnb MicroCabin (www.airbnb.com/rooms/19269566...) - 7/10
Day 7 - Carmel by the Sea/Monterey/Santa Cruz
- Cannery Row (Monterey) - 6.5/10
- Lunch at Old Fisherman's Wharf (clam chowder) - 7/10
- Other food options (Monterey)
- Old fisherman’s grotto
- Lou Lou’s griddle in the middle
- Cafe fina
- Other food options (Carmel)
- RG Burgers
- PortaBella
- Pangaea Grill
- Flying Fish Grill
- 17-mile drive ($10) - 8/10
- Carmel by the Sea Shopping - 8/10
- Alvarado Brewing Company - 9/10
- Santa Cruz Boardwalk - 7/10
- Food options at Santa Cruz
- Linda’s Seabreeze Cafe
- Harbor Cafe
- Alderwood
- Humble Sea Brewery
- Stay @West Cliffs Inn - 9/10
Day 8 - Big Sur/Santa Barbera
- Stay @ Brisas Del Mar - 6/10
- Big Sur - 9/10
- Bixby Bridge (North pulloff) - 9/10
- Point Sur Light Station - 7.5/10
- McWay Falls - 8/10
- Dinner at Stonehouse @ San Ysidro Ranch - 9/10
- Other Food options
- Finney’s Crafthouse
- The Palace Grill
Equipment
- GoPro Hero 9
- DJI Mavic Air 2
- Panasonic Lumix G85
Credits
- Video recorded, edited, and produced by AnJrue
- Some photos by TripAdvisor, AllYosemite.com, Nps.Org
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This such a perfect, well-rounded travel guide!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tips!...thanks for sharing. Two thumbs up for this video!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Thanks you for your sharing .. we will be there in middle August :)
No problem! You’re going to have so much fun!
Thanks for the video and the recommendations! This was helpful!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the information. 👍👍👍👍❤🙏😇
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Very useful video n well captured 👌🏻
Which trails you recommend when traveling with kids ? TIA
Thanks! Glacier Point Trail, Lower Yosemite Falls, Mirror Lake (the short part) are all kid friendly ones! Recommend going to Alltrails.com and checking out the easy trails!
Great video overall until the end- I’ll make my own health decisions. Thanks 😂
And that's your right! But it's also my right to tell people what I think :)
Great vid. Didn't understand your first point. I have reservations for an in-park hotel and a America the beautiful pass for next June. Do I need to still need to apply for a three day pass?
Thanks! And yes, even if you have the annual pass, you still have to make reservations during the busy months (summer), which June falls under. Check out recreation.gov at least 60 days prior to your day of arrival, because sometimes they do have fee-free days. If the days you’re traveling aren’t one of the “fee-free days”, you only have to pay $2 (non refundable) for one vehicle. Just make sure you select the option that says you have the annual pass. Hope this helps!
@@AnJrue32 That's helpful, thank you!
No problem!
We are bringing our own bikes.. do you see a lot of bike racks..?
Good question, I remember seeing some in Yosemite Village, but honestly outside of that area, I don't think I saw too many. Sorry I can't be of more help!
Thanks!
"Yosemite trails are so poorly marked". I will second that. We were there mid June and I scratched it off of my bucket list. Personally I like Glacier much better than Yosemite. Glacier is a hikers dream. Yosemite was nice but for us a one timer.
Agreed, we are hoping to go to Glacier in 2022. I've seen and read so many good things about it! We're going to Smoky this fall!
@@AnJrue32 When you go to Glacier I highly recommend Iceberg Lake trail. It is 10 miles roundtrip but not difficult. Beautiful ! Our first trip there it was closed because of grizzly activity.
@@JH-mt3pp Sweet, thanks for the tips!
Never visit Yosemite during the summer time are you crazy it’s too hot like Las Vegas and it’s very crowded
Just depends on what you want. All the hikes and roads are open during this time Vs the colder months. If you wake up early, you can still get decent weather on hikes!
You don't hike using a map? How can it be so confusing?
Maps are overrated. I prefer to get lost the natural way
@@AnJrue32 lol ! You are brave !
Nah just dumb. Haha we learned
Alltrails, bro.
What about it?
why would you want a city near you when you visit a national park? the whole point is to get away from the city life.
Just depends on the type of person I guess! My wife and I like a nice restaurant/brewery/bar after a day of hiking and enjoying the great outdoors, but I certainly can see what you mean!
Your video was cool until you mentioned vaccinations. Lol 👎
Awww sorry not sorry 😬