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Epic Guide to Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is truly the heart of Yosemite National Park in California. The majority of the parks most popular attra ...
The project is one of two major upgrades that visitors will discover this summer at Yosemite, along with a new $12.5 million visitor center built in the heart of the valley near the Village Store.
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As promised earlier this month, Yosemite National Park will be re-opening the Tuolumne Meadows campgrounds for the summer. The park service announced an Aug. 1 reopening for the campground, which sits ...
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Yosemite Valley areas east of the El Capitan Bridge — located about 2 miles west of the park visitor center — will close at 10 pm on Friday. There will be no public access to the visitor ...
As the biggest snowpack on record starts to melt, officials are closing parts of Yosemite National Park ahead of the threat of flooding.
4 p.m.: Learn some history at Yosemite Valley Visitor Center. Every national park visit requires a stop at the visitor center to learn about the park’s history and main features.
The Ahwahnee hotel is covered in scaffolding, part of a $31 million renovation, and a new Yosemite Valley visitor center is going up near the Village Store. The forest doesn’t look the same, either.
“In front of Yosemite Valley Visitor Center, you can occasionally feel the mist from Yosemite Falls,” Goehring said. “That’s pretty spectacular.
Here you’ll find several lodging options and Yosemite Valley Visitor Center, a general store, nature center, the Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite Museum and the Indian Cultural Exhibit.
But it inevitably leads to snow melt.” Yosemite Valley areas east of the El Capitan Bridge — located about 2 miles west of the park visitor center — will close at 10 pm on Friday.