Yosemite Travel Blog

After being closed for a month for safety upgrades, Yosemite’s grand hotel, The Ahwahnee, is reopening on St. Patrick’s Day. Visitors will again be able to stay in the hotel’s historic rooms and enjoy meals in its great dining room.  Outside the Ahwahnee, the floor of Yosemite Valley...

The Village Store in Yosemite Village is the park’s biggest and most diverse outlet for groceries and park souvenirs.  About half of the store is a small version of your basic grocery store, the other half is t-shirts, knick-knacks, and miscellaneous Yosemite paraphernalia  for visitors.  Among...

Yosemite Valley’s bears are awake, after a long winter’s nap.  Roughly every other winter some bears stay active in Yosemite Valley, but this was a year when they all crawled away to sleep.  Turns out the Sierra has had an above average snowpack accumulate and the bears avoided all that...