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Active Things to Do in Yosemite National Park

    • Yosemite Mountaineering School - Yosemite National Park
    • Yosemite Bike Trails - Yosemite National Park
    • Half Dome Trail - Yosemite National Park

      • 3. Half Dome Trail

      • The best hiking adventure for the very fit
        • Hiking
        • Yosemite Valley
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    • Zephyr Whitewater Expeditions - Yosemite National Park
    • Mount Dana - Yosemite National Park

      • 5. Mount Dana

      • This climb is an in-your-face reminder that Mount Dana is Yosemite's second-highest peak. The mountain...

        • Hiking
        • Tioga Road corridor
    • Cathedral Lake Trail - Yosemite National Park

      • 6. Cathedral Lake Trail

      • Popular subalpine route to beautiful lakes and peaks
        • Hiking
        • Tioga Road corridor
    • Badger Pass - Yosemite National Park

      • 7. Badger Pass

      • Since its opening in 1935, Yosemite's Badger Pass Ski Area, has been a favorite vacation spot for generations of skiers.
        • Winter Sports
        • Highway 41 corridor
    • Top of Nevada Falls Hike - Yosemite National Park

      • 8. Top of Nevada Falls Hike

      • A strenuous but astounding day's round-trip to a 600-foot waterfall.
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        • Yosemite Valley
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    • Upper Yosemite Falls Trail - Yosemite National Park
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    • Ostrander Lake Trail - Yosemite National Park
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  • Yosemite's best active things to do can keep the outdoorsperson busy for a joyful lifetime, with four seasons of recreation opportunities. While some think of Yosemite as a sanctuary, a museum or a cathedral, the active tribe recognize it as a playground. Indeed, the above descriptors can be applied at the same time; this refuge was set aside by our wise predecessors for all of us to enjoy in our own ways.

    Rockclimbing may be the first active pursuit that comes to mind for this place. The park's peaks and kilometer-tall cliffs fill the dreams of granite addicts around the world. Nowhere on earth has so much easily accessible vertical terrain, where a beginner can get a taste of climbing with the Yosemite Mountaineering School or an experienced rock star can barely make their way up the most technical routes. Even for those who don't rope up themselves, climbing has become a popular spectator sport.

    Yosemite has 800 miles of hiking trails that lead the admiring traveler on and on through jaw-dropping Sierra terrain. You need a permit for overnight backpacking, but there's lots of landscape to go around. There's also no shortage of world-class dayhikes from Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy or Glacier Point.

    In the winter there's ice skating, sledding, snowshoeing and cross-country and downhill skiing or snowboarding at the historic Badger Pass Ski Area. Backcountry ski touring is another option.

    In a popular place like Yosemite, 'Leave No Trace' practices need to be employed so that the park's beauty is sustained. Swim, bike (no mountain biking in the park, but plenty in four adjacent National Forests), fish or kayak; Yosemite IS a playground.

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