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1. Yosemite Valley Visitor Center
- Yosemite exhibits, a bookstore, a park film and rangers to answer questions
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- Visitor Centers
- Yosemite Valley
- Nile Expert Tip: A great education can be had between exhibits, the bookstore, the film and talking with rangers.
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2. Tuolumne Meadows Visitor Center
- High country orientation
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- Tioga Road corridor
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3. Wawona Visitor Center
- Your best first stop if coming in from the south
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- Outside Park, South
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4. Wilderness Center
- Permits for overnight backpacking and wilderness information
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5. Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau
- Southern gate to the park
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- Outside Park, South
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6. Mariposa County Visitors Bureau
- All Things Mariposa
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- Outside Park, South
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7. Parsons Memorial Lodge
- A historic center for high country learning in Tuolumne Meadows
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- Museums
- Tioga Road corridor
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8. LeConte Memorial Lodge
- Educational center
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9. Nature Center at Happy Isles
- Family-oriented exhibits with a Junior Ranger emphasis
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- Yosemite Valley
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10. Camp Six Yurt
- An info station in Yosemite Village Day Use Parking
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Yosemite has great visitor centers where all your essential questions for a park visit can be answered by rangers and other staff. The seasonal nature of park access means that most of them are closed in the winter. In the summertime, wherever you go, you'll encounter these useful educational and informational resources.
The Yosemite Valley Visitor Center is the heart of the system, open every day of the year, and located in Yosemite Village where most park visitors find themselves at some point. New exhibits were dedicated just a couple of years ago, an auditorium out back shows the award-winning "Spirit of Yosemite" film every half-hour, the Indian Museum and Indian Village are right next door. Here is also the park's biggest bookstore for all those Yosemite/Sierra references. Ranger walks depart from here daily in the summer.
Tuolumne Meadows has a historic visitor center located inside an old stone and timber CCC camp building. There's no film here, but an outstanding ranger staff makes up for that.
Wawona's visitor center is also a historic facility: the studio of famed landscape artist Thomas Hill. It was just restored inside, to replicate its interior from when Hill worked here. Located next to the historic Wawona Hotel, with two fountains (also recently restored), this visitor center is easy to find.
Outside the park there are useful visitor centers in Oakhurst and Mariposa as you approach on the west side. In Lee Vining to the east, the Park Service and Forest Service share a very nice visitor center on a bluff above Mono Lake.
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