There are lots of great resources for information on the Yosemite area but one of the best I’ve found is the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide. If you want one you’re in luck, the 2008 edition was just released and it’s awesome.
Sierra Star: “The 2008 Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide for the Mountain Area, produced by the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau, is finding its way into eager hands.
This year’s cover features a stunning photograph of a light fall in Yosemite: sunlight hits the moisture on a rock face in just the right way, and it appears there is lava cascading to the valley floor.
The 68-page glossy, full-color magazine includes photos from the area plus stories, calendars, charts, contact phone numbers or Web sites and maps to help visitors and locals alike find their way around and maybe discover places they have never been.
‘It’s a great piece of work,’ Bill Putnam said.
As bureau president, he’s featured on Page 3 of the guide, welcoming people to our area.
The guide was distributed with the Sierra Star last week. It is free for the asking at the bureau office, 41969 Highway 41 or through the Web site, www.yosemitethisyear.com or by phone, (559) 683-4636.
Dan Carter, bureau executive director, said Monday he was at a Bay Area travel show over the weekend.
‘The response was incredible,’ he said.
Heidi Vetter, one of this year’s contributors, told him a couple of years ago that the cover of a publication like this should be stunning.
‘What I mean by stunning,’ he said, ‘is that at the travel show, people should stop dead in their tracks.’
He said he had no difficulty handing out the guides this year.”
For more information or to request a guide you can go online to www.yosemitethisyear.com.