Your National Parks Part 30

Sentinel Hotel, per day $4 to $5 Yosemite Falls Camp, wooden bungalows, per day 3.50 El Capitan Camp, wood frames covered with canvas and wood floors, per day 2.50

Camp Lost Arrow, operated by W. M. Sell, Jr., per day 2.50

Camp Curry, operated by Curry Camping Company, per day 2.50

Camp Ahwahnee, operated by W. M. Sell, Sr., per day 3.75

At Glacier Point, above the Valley, the Desmond Park Service Company operates the New Glacier Point Hotel, with a uniform rate of $4.00 per day.

At Tenaya Lake, Tuolumne Soda Springs, and Merced Lake the Desmond Park-Service Company operates permanent camps known as lodges. These lodges have wood frames covered with canvas and wood floors. The rate at all of the lodges is $3.00 per day, with an additional charge of $1.00 when the lodge is occupied exclusively by one person.

Eight miles from the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, but outside the Park, is the Wawona Hotel at Wawona; rates are from $4.00 to $5.00 per day.

[Ill.u.s.tration: TRAVEL-GUIDE MAP OF THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK CALIFORNIA

_By permission of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior_]

Tours

The main roads in Yosemite National Park are the Tioga Road, which crosses the Park in an east-west direction almost in its center; the Big Oak Flat Road, by which Yosemite Valley may be reached from Modesto and Stockton; the Coulterville Road, by which Yosemite Valley may be reached from Merced; El Portal Road, between the terminus of the Yosemite Valley Railroad and Yosemite Valley; the Wawona Road, connecting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees; and the Glacier Point Road, extending from the Wawona Road to Glacier Point. Travel between points in the Park that are not contiguous to these roads must be made on foot or horseback over the many trails that connect the princ.i.p.al points of interest.

Yosemite Village is the center of all activities in the Park and practically all the trips radiate from this point. Every variety of trip may be taken, ranging from a single day excursion to the peaks surrounding the Valley to a 9-day tour of the High Sierra.

Arrangements may be made for extended or special trips, but the tours and trips listed below include the more important points of interest.

All of these trips are under the supervision of the Desmond Park Service Company and are made on horseback unless otherwise noted. The rates include transportation only. Meals and lodging may be obtained at Glacier Point Hotel and at the lodges at the regular rates.

One-day trips:--

Vernal and Nevada Falls, round trip $3.00

Vernal and Nevada Falls, Glacier Point and return, continuous, round trip 3.00

Vernal and Nevada Falls and Clouds Rest, round trip 3.00

Glacier Point and Sentinel Dome via Union Point (short trail), round trip 3.00

Yosemite Point, round trip 3.00

Eagle Peak, round trip 3.00

Pohono Trail to Fort Monroe, thence by automobile from Fort Monroe via Wawona Road to Valley 5.00

North Dome via Mirror Lake, and return via Yosemite Falls, or _vice versa_ 3.00

Lake Tenaya via Tenaya Canon, round trip 3.00

Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, and Fissures via Union Point (short trail) and return 3.00

Two-day trips:--

Happy Isles, Vernal and Nevada Falls, Glacier Point Hotel, Sentinel Dome, Taft Point, Dewey Point, and Inspiration Point 8.00

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, Nevada and Vernal Falls 6.00

Three-day trips:--

Happy Isles, Vernal and Nevada Falls, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, and Washburn Lake 9.00

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, Nevada and Illilouette Falls, and Glacier Point Hotel 9.00

Four-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, Washburn Lake, Nevada and Vernal Falls 12.00

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte, California, Nevada, and Illilouette Falls, and Glacier Point Hotel 12.00

Five-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Donohue Pa.s.s, Mount Lyell, Glen Aulin Falls, Magee Lake, Eagle Peak, and Yosemite Point 15.00

Six-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte, and California Falls, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Tuolumne Meadows, Donohue Pa.s.s, Mount Lyell, Eagle Peak, and Yosemite Point 18.00

Seven-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Donohue Pa.s.s, Mount Lyell, Nevada and Illilouette Falls, and Glacier Point Hotel 21.00

Eight-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Donohue Pa.s.s, Mount Lyell, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, and Washburn Lake 24.00

Nine-day trips:--

Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Tuolumne Pa.s.s, Mount Lyell, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, Washburn Lake, and Glacier Point Hotel 27.00

Automobile trips to points reached by road may be made at the following rates:--

From Sentinel Hotel or any of the permanent camps:--

To or from Happy Isles or Mirror Lake, one way $ .75

Round trip to Happy Isles or Mirror Lake 1.25

To Bridal Veil Falls, one way 1.00

To Bridal Veil Falls, round trip 1.75