Was ist los in Yosemite-Nationalpark, Vereinigte Staaten – übers Jahr

Viel los – Winter / Christmas break in Vereinigte Staaten, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Regel

  Bear canisters and food lockers

  1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Schließungen

  Nothing with a smell may be left in a car overnight and backcountry trips carry an approved canister. Rangers ticket for it, and bears open cars in the valley car parks most summers anyway. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15. Dez. – 20. März (meist))

Viel los – Horsetail Fall at sunset

• Natur

  Horsetail Fall at sunset

  8.–27. Feb. · meistSternenhimmel-SaisonVoll

  For about two weeks in mid-February the last sun hits Horsetail Fall and the water glows orange for ten minutes. It needs water in the fall and a clear western horizon, so it fails as often as it works. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15. Dez. – 20. März (meist))

Viel los – Spring break in Vereinigte Staaten

Im März beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15. Dez. – 20. März (meist))

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Natur

  Dogwood in the valley

  15. Apr. – 20. Mai · meistWildblumen & Blüte

  The Pacific dogwoods flower white through the valley floor forest for a few weeks from mid-April, at the same time as the waterfalls are loudest and the high country is still shut. Quelle ↗

• Natur

  Waterfalls at full flow

  15. Apr. – 15. Juni · meistHochwasser

  Snowmelt peaks in May and Yosemite Falls runs hard enough to soak the Lower Fall bridge. By August it is often a stain on the rock, so the falls are a spring trip, not a summer one.

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist))

Viel los – Memorial Day weekend

• Eröffnung

  Tioga and Glacier Point roads open

  10. Mai – 10. Nov. · meistWandersaison

  The two high roads are ploughed open between early May and early July depending on the snowpack, and shut again with the first serious storm in autumn. Tuolumne Meadows and Glacier Point are unreachable by car outside that window. Quelle ↗

• Regel

  Half Dome cable permits

  20. Mai – 15. Okt. · meistFrüh buchenSchließungen

  The cables go up for the summer and the climb needs a permit, won in a March lottery or one of the daily draws two days out. Without one the hike stops at the base of the subdome. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Memorial Day weekend

  23.–25. MaiNationalfeiertagVollFrüh buchen

  Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, opens the summer travel season: over the long weekend campsites and lodging book out, roads are slow, and parking at the most popular spots fills early in the day. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Dogwood in the valley (15. Apr. – 20. Mai (meist)), Waterfalls at full flow (15. Apr. – 15. Juni (meist)), High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Summer peak, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Saison

  Summer peak

  15. Juni – 25. Aug.SchulferienVollFrüh buchen

  The valley takes most of the park's four million annual visits in ten weeks. Campsites and valley lodging are booked the day they release, and the shuttle queue is the real bottleneck. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Waterfalls at full flow (15. Apr. – 15. Juni (meist)), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Half Dome cable permits (20. Mai – 15. Okt. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Summer peak, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Natur

  Tuolumne Meadows in flower

  1. Juli – 10. Aug. · meistWildblumen & Blüte

  The subalpine meadows at 2,600 metres flower for about six weeks once Tioga Road opens, and the mosquitoes peak with them. Late July is the compromise.

• Risiko

  Wildfire smoke

  15. Juli – 30. Sep. · meistRauchsaisonSchließungen

  Late-summer fires in and around the Sierra fill the valley with smoke that sits between the walls for days. Prescribed burns in autumn do a milder version of the same thing. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Half Dome cable permits (20. Mai – 15. Okt. (meist)), Summer peak (15. Juni – 25. Aug.)

Hochbetrieb – Summer peak, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Feiertag

  Labor Day weekend

  5.–7. Sep.NationalfeiertagVollFrüh buchen

  Labor Day, the first Monday of September, is the last big getaway of summer: the long weekend books out campsites and lodging and fills parking early, and families thin out quickly once it has passed. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Half Dome cable permits (20. Mai – 15. Okt. (meist)), Summer peak (15. Juni – 25. Aug.), Tuolumne Meadows in flower (1. Juli – 10. Aug. (meist)), Wildfire smoke (15. Juli – 30. Sep. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Labor Day weekend, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

Im September beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Half Dome cable permits (20. Mai – 15. Okt. (meist)), Wildfire smoke (15. Juli – 30. Sep. (meist)), Labor Day weekend (5.–7. Sep.)

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Natur

  Autumn colour in the valley

  10. Okt. – 15. Nov. · meist

  Black oak and dogwood on the valley floor turn through late October and the aspen along Tioga go earlier and higher. The falls are at their thinnest at the same time, which is the trade. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Half Dome cable permits (20. Mai – 15. Okt. (meist))

Ruhig – laut Reisenden ruhig, Thanksgiving break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Schließung

  High country closed for winter

  10. Nov. – 10. Mai · meist

  Tioga Road, Glacier Point Road and Mariposa Grove Road close with the first heavy snow and stay shut for six months. The valley stays open all winter, with chains required and almost nobody in it. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10. Mai – 10. Nov. (meist)), Autumn colour in the valley (10. Okt. – 15. Nov. (meist))

Viel los – Winter / Christmas break in Vereinigte Staaten, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Saison

  Badger Pass and the winter valley

  15. Dez. – 20. März · meistSkisaison

  The park's own small ski area runs when the snow allows, the Curry Village rink is open under the walls, and the valley is as quiet as it ever gets. Chains are a legal requirement on the way in. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Bear canisters and food lockers (1. Jan. – 31. Dez.), High country closed for winter (10. Nov. – 10. Mai (meist))