Category: Things to do
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Watch the Ken Burns Special with Shelton Johnson and Lee Stetson
If you want to see the PBS special by Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea there will be a screanings from Sunday, September 27 through Friday, October 2 where you’ll be able to watch all the episodes in the series. The episodes will be shown from from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at…
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Come See Crosby Stills and Nash at Ironstone Vineyards
Crosby, Stills and Nash perform in Houston, 2009. Photo by Steve Alexander. Ironstone Vineyards is about an hour and 20 minutes north of Yosemite in Murphys. Not many park visitors make the trip to Ironstone even though the winery makes some of the best wine in California. But now there’s a great reason to head…
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Star Bright, Star Light, First Star I See Tonight
Photo courtesy NPS. One of the things I hear from people who’ve just experienced their first night in Yosemite is, “God I can’t believe how many stars there are here!” The stars are exactly the same as where you live, we just don’t have as much light pollution drowning out their light. In fact, Tuolumne…
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Come Listen to Some Music this Labor Day at the Strawberry Music Festival
Performers on the main stage at the Strawberry Music Festival in Camp Mather. Photo by Jordan Klein. If you haven’t got your tickets yet to the Strawberry Music Festival taking place in Camp Mather Labor Day weekend you’ve still got time. “The Strawberry Music Festival offers an opportunity for the whole family to participate in…
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Catch Lee Stetson as John Muir in Yosemite Valley
Lee Stetson portrays John Muir. Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne. So if you can’t make it up to Tuolumne Meadows this weekend don’t worry. There’s still a few more weeks of summer left and that means you can catch Lee Stetson in his awesome portrayal of John Muir in Yosemite Valley. You can catch Lee’s performances…
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Something To Do This Weekend? Learn About The Life of John Muir
Plan on being in Yosemite this Saturday for a discussion about the life and times of John Muir. Called “A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir” the discussion will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Parsons Memorial Lodge in Tuolumne Meadows as part of a Yosemite National Park…
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Be Sure to Visit The Ansel Adams Gallery
The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite Village is a definite “must-see”. Photo by Kyleandmelissa22. Next to the waterfalls and the granite peaks the Ansel Adams Gallery is one of the “must-sees” in Yosemite. Located in Yosemite Village next to the visitors center the Ansel Adams Gallery is not only home to works by Ansel himself,…
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Ask A Climber
Visitors peer through a telescope at climbers on El Capitan. Photo by Tom Evans. It’s not uncommon to see throngs of visitors standing along Northside Drive by El Cap staring up at the climbers. I mean, it DOES take a certain amount of something to risk great bodily injury in the name of fun. I…
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Wet a Line in Yosemite
Releasing a small rainbow in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Photo by Volker Neumann. Many visitors to Yosemite look at the nearly dry waterfalls and slow flowing rivers of late summer and think what a shame it is to have missed the grand floods of spring. Not fly fishermen though, for us late summer…
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Want some fun? Ride the Rails!
An old steam powered logging train takes visitors on a 4 mile ride through the beautiful Sierra Nevada just outside Yosemite National Park. Photo by Dale Carlson. If you’re coming up to Yosemite this weekend for the free entry weekend and want something to do why not ride the rails? The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine…