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April 21st – 29th is National Parks Weeks and Yosemite has lots of fun and exciting things planned to celebrate. Evening Events Friday, April 21 Special Earth Day Eve Family Program: music and fun with Adam Burns and friends 7:00 Yosemite Lodge Amphitheater Saturday, April 22 Lee Stetson, Actor: “An Earth Day Visit with John…

If you’re headed up to the park for earth Day there’s lots of cool thing for you to check out and do and you might even get into the park for free. Yosemite National Park will celebrate Earth Day with a variety of stewardship and educational activities intended to improve the visitor’s understanding of the…

Pavitra happened across the blog the other day and thought to write in with a great question. I’m planning a 4 or 5-day camping trip to Yosemite in mid-June and need your help finding a campground. All the campsites in yosemite are reserved already, so I am now looking at places outside the park. (I…

If you’re looking to get Jon’s DVD Hiking Guide then now is the time. Jon sent me an email to let me know that not only will you get the free map/guide if you mention YosemiteBlog when you order but he’s giving away free shipping. Wow! That’s awesome. You can find out more information at…

If you’re traveling up the 120 route into Yosemite looks like you can expect a little longer drive than you’d planned. CalTrans is doing some emergency roadwork at the bottom of Priest Grade, a narrow winding section of road just below Big Oak Flat and Groveland. NPS:The Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will be closing State…

Sunrise Originally uploaded by Campin’ Guy. Digging around for photos of Bridalveil Fall on my external hard drive I came across this one from early last summer.

Sorry it took so long to get back. I had to ban a spammers IP this morning. Over the weekend I received over 300 spam comments. Each time a comment is made it generates an email to me. So that’s not only 300 comments I had to wade through but 300 emails plus all the…

OMG. It’s April and I haven’t taken down the poll yet. I’ll get right on that. Anyone have any ideas for a poll?

Reader Jeff wrote in to ask: We are going to be visiting Yosemite April 19-23 and we were wondering what trails might be open (free of snow) that time of the year. Tentatively, we are hiking the lower trails at Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite Valley, but we were hoping for a good third hike. Well…

So I was talking to Jon over at YosemiteTrailsDVD.com and he’s given me permission to pass along a great offer to you. If you visit his website and order one of his great DVDs packed full of information on trails, beautiful photos, and great tips you can get it for only $19.95 (plus S&H and…