Cosa c'è in programma a Parco nazionale di Yosemite (Stati Uniti d'America) durante l'anno

Affollato — Winter / Christmas break in Stati Uniti d'America, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Regola

  Bear canisters and food lockers

  1 gen – 31 dicChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15 dic – 20 mar (di solito))

Affollato — Horsetail Fall at sunset

• Natura

  Horsetail Fall at sunset

  8–27 feb · di solitoStagione dei cieli stellatiAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15 dic – 20 mar (di solito))

Affollato — Spring break in Stati Uniti d'America

In marzo non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito)), Badger Pass and the winter valley (15 dic – 20 mar (di solito))

Media stagione — un mese nella media

• Natura

  Dogwood in the valley

  15 apr – 20 mag · di solitoFiori e fioriture

  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. Fonte ↗

• Natura

  Waterfalls at full flow

  15 apr – 15 giu · di solitoPiena

  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.

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito))

Affollato — Memorial Day weekend

• Apertura

  Tioga and Glacier Point roads open

  10 mag – 10 nov · di solitoStagione dei sentieri

  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. Fonte ↗

• Regola

  Half Dome cable permits

  20 mag – 15 ott · di solitoPrenota prestoChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Memorial Day weekend

  23–25 magFesta nazionaleAffollatoPrenota presto

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Dogwood in the valley (15 apr – 20 mag (di solito)), Waterfalls at full flow (15 apr – 15 giu (di solito)), High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Summer peak, Summer break in Stati Uniti d'America

• Stagione

  Summer peak

  15 giu – 25 agoVacanze scolasticheAffollatoPrenota presto

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Waterfalls at full flow (15 apr – 15 giu (di solito)), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Half Dome cable permits (20 mag – 15 ott (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Summer peak, Summer break in Stati Uniti d'America

• Natura

  Tuolumne Meadows in flower

  1 lug – 10 ago · di solitoFiori e fioriture

  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.

• Rischio

  Wildfire smoke

  15 lug – 30 set · di solitoStagione del fumoChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Half Dome cable permits (20 mag – 15 ott (di solito)), Summer peak (15 giu – 25 ago)

Folla al massimo — Summer peak, Summer break in Stati Uniti d'America

• Festività

  Labor Day weekend

  5–7 setFesta nazionaleAffollatoPrenota presto

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Half Dome cable permits (20 mag – 15 ott (di solito)), Summer peak (15 giu – 25 ago), Tuolumne Meadows in flower (1 lug – 10 ago (di solito)), Wildfire smoke (15 lug – 30 set (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Labor Day weekend, Summer break in Stati Uniti d'America

In settembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Half Dome cable permits (20 mag – 15 ott (di solito)), Wildfire smoke (15 lug – 30 set (di solito)), Labor Day weekend (5–7 set)

Media stagione — un mese nella media

• Natura

  Autumn colour in the valley

  10 ott – 15 nov · di solito

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Half Dome cable permits (20 mag – 15 ott (di solito))

Tranquillo — i viaggiatori la descrivono come tranquilla, Thanksgiving break in Stati Uniti d'America

• Chiusura

  High country closed for winter

  10 nov – 10 mag · di solito

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), Tioga and Glacier Point roads open (10 mag – 10 nov (di solito)), Autumn colour in the valley (10 ott – 15 nov (di solito))

Affollato — Winter / Christmas break in Stati Uniti d'America, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Stagione

  Badger Pass and the winter valley

  15 dic – 20 mar · di solitoStagione sciistica

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bear canisters and food lockers (1 gen – 31 dic), High country closed for winter (10 nov – 10 mag (di solito))