Day Hikes in Yosemite National Park, 2nd; 55 Great Hikes

by Robert Stone

• ISBN13: 9781573420372
• ISBN10: 1573420379
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Day Hike Books, Inc.

Summary

Includes 55 hikes in this incredible park, which lies within the Sierra Nevada Range in central California. Hikes in the park range from quiet paths through giant sequoia groves to fairly strenuous climbs up Yosemite's chiseled gorges.

Author Biography

For more than a decade, Robert Stone has been writer, photographer, and publisher of Day Hike Books. Robert resides summers in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and winters on the central coast of California and Hawaii. This year-round temperate climate enables him to hike over 200 hikes throughout the year. When not hiking, Robert is researching, writing, and mapping the hikes before returning to the trails. Robert has hiked every trail in the Day Hike Book series. With over twenty hiking guides in the series, he has hiked more than 900 trails throughout the western United States and Hawaii.

Table of Contents

About the Hikes	6	(2)
Map of the Hikes	8	(2)
THE HIKES
Tioga Road
Tioga Road map	10	(2)
Middle and Upper Gaylor Lakes	12	(2)
Tioga Road Tuolumne Meadows Area
Lyell Canyon	14	(2)
Lembert Dome	16	(2)
Dog Lake	18	(2)
Glen Aulin and Tuolumne Falls	20	(1)
Tuolumne Meadows and Soda Springs	21	(3)
Elizabeth Lake	24	(2)
Pothole Dome	26	(2)
Lower Cathedral Lake	28	(2)
Tioga Road West of Tuolumne Meadows
Murphy Creek Trail to Polly Dome Lakes	30	(2)
Tenaya Lake	32	(2)
Sunrise Lakes	34	(2)
Olmsted Point	36	(2)
May Lake	38	(2)
Porcupine Creek Trail to Indian Ridge Natural Arch	40	(1)
North Dome (via Porcupine Creek Trail)	41	(3)
Yosemite Creek Trail from Tioga Road to Yosemite Creek Campground	44	(2)
Harden Lake	46	(2)
Lukens Lake	48	(2)
Cascade Creek from Tamarack Campground	50	(2)
Tuolumne Grove of Giant Sequoias Old Big Oak Flat Road	52	(2)
Hetch Hetchy to Big Oak Flat
Wapama Falls	54	(1)
O'Shaughnessy Dam to Tuolumne River	55	(3)
Poopenaut Valley	58	(2)
Lookout Point	60	(2)
Carlon Falls	62	(2)
Big Oak Flat Road and Foresta
Merced Grove of Giant Sequoias	64	(2)
Little Nellie Falls	66	(2)
Foresta Falls	68	(4)
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley map	70	(2)
The Cascades and Wildcat Falls	72	(2)
Bridalveil Fall	74	(2)
Upper Yosemite Fall	76	(2)
Lower Yosemite Fall	78	(2)
East Valley Loop Along the Merced River	80	(2)
Mirror Lake and Tenaya Canyon	82	(3)
Vernal and Nevada Falls summary	84	(1)
Vernal Fall	85	(1)
Nevada Fall	86	(4)
Glacier Point Road
Glacier Point Road map	88	(2)
McGurk Meadow	90	(2)
Dewey Point and Crocker Point---Pohono Trail	92	(2)
Westfall Meadows	94	(2)
Bridalveil Creek	96	(2)
Mono Meadow to Overlook	98	(2)
Taft Point and the Fissures	100	(2)
Sentinel Dome	102	(2)
Pohono Trail	104	(2)
Glacier Point	106	(2)
Four-Mile Trail	108	(2)
Panorama Trail to Illilouette Fall	110	(1)
Panorama Trail---John Muir Trail Shuttle	111	(3)
Wawona and Mariposa Grove
Lower Chilnualna Falls	114	(2)
Chilnualna Falls	116	(2)
Swinging Bridge Trail	118	(2)
Wawona Meadow Loop	120	(4)
Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias---summary	122	(2)
Lower Mariposa Grove	124	(1)
Upper and Lower Mariposa Grove via tram ride to Mariposa Grove Museum	125