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Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite Guide Book

by Suzanne Swedo (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite

96pp/maps
ISBN: 1560447273

Yosemite National Park boasts some of the country’s most remarkable and diverse wild lands. This guide samples over 20 of the most scenic and least physically challenging trails within the park. The hikes described here are scattered throughout the entire park, leading you to uncongested trails and some of the park’s best kept secrets. This indispensable guide provides accurate hike descriptions, easy-to-follow maps, and concise trail information for the author’s favorite trails. With hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, Best Easy Day Hikes Yosemite has something for everyone.

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Trails from the "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite" Guide Book
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... Preview: Bridalveil Creek flows over the southern wall of Yosemite Valley through a defile between Cathedral Rocks and the Leaning Tower, but before it reaches the bottom, 620 feet below, the wind catches, tat ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.8 miles
... Preview: Chilnualna Creek seldom flows quietly, but rushes and crashes and roars almost constantly for most of its length. One of the most spectacular sections of falling water is just above the point where Ch ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Wawona, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.4 miles
... Preview: Dog Lake is surrounded on three sides by lodgepole pines, but at the far east end, a green (or golden, depending on the season) meadow provides the foreground for the huge red bulks of Mount Dana and ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.2 miles
... Preview: This hike crosses the road and continues downstream along the north bank of the Merced, but take a minute to walk out onto the bridge over the road for views of the river, which rushes toward the brid ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.6 miles
... Preview: The view from Glacier Point is surely one of the most spectacular in the world. Half Dome occupies center stage, brooding over slickrock Tenaya Canyon and Mirror Lake at the east end of Yosemite Valle ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: This may be the finest hike in Yosemite Valley. The Merced River first plunges over the steps of the Giant Staircase as Nevada Fall, then as Vernal Fall, before it slows to sweeping meanders over the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: This is an upside-down hike and should probably be considered at the very edge of “easy,” but it isn’t difficult if you take your time. Remember that it will take much longer to come back up from the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.2 miles
... Preview: Lembert Dome, among the premier features of Tuolumne Meadows, is the huge, lopsided, smoothly polished mound of granite just north of the Tioga Road. This loop will take you all the way around the dom ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.1 miles
... Preview: Yosemite Falls is among the most famous and frequently photographed falls in the world and, according to some, is the highest on the continent at 2,425 feet. It is actually a series of three falls, th ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.6 miles
... Preview: To begin this hike, carefully cross the Tioga Road and head uphill through an almost pure red fir forest. The cones underfoot come from the occasional western white pine or hemlock; fir cones do not f ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Manteca, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: This route is part of the famous John Muir Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. The scene from the bridges must be one of the most sublime in Yosemite. The river is a brilliant turquoise ribbon winding ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.2 miles
... Preview: The hike begins in a shady glen with a variety of conifers—lodgepole, silver pine, hemlock, and fir—and passes a little brown pond teeming with fairy shrimp and other interesting creatures. The well-u ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.4 miles
... Preview: This is one of Yosemite’s prettiest and “bloomingest” meadows. The path descends through a quiet lodgepole pine forest, and alongside the trail, currants, strawberries, lupines, larkspur, and many oth ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: Mirror Lake was created when a rockslide dammed up a section of Tenaya Creek, which promptly went to work to reclaim its original course. Every spring, the creek washes tons of silt down the canyon to ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: Most visitors hop out of their cars at Olmstead Point, take a snapshot of the view, then drive away. By descending only a very short distance from the parking lot, however, you will be rewarded with a ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.6 miles
... Preview: Pothole Dome looks like a much smaller version of Lembert Dome and is located at the west end of Tuolumne Meadows. Here you will find a number of fine examples of glacial activity. There are patches o ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: The location of Sentinel Dome above Yosemite Valley provides complete 360-degree views of just about the whole park. Carry water and wear good sturdy shoes for this one; smooth-soled sandals won’t giv ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.2 miles
... Preview: A wide, sandy trail heads right into the heart of enormous Tuolumne Meadows amid a riot of wildflowers: purple meadow penstemon, shooting stars, white pussytoes, and yellow goldenrod. The Tuolumne Riv ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.2 miles
... Preview: This is an upside-down excursion. After an easy cruise downhill to Taft Point, you will be climbing up on your way back. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time and to take water with you. Your reward ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
El Portal, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.2 miles
... Preview: Tenaya Lake was named for Chief Tenaya, who, with all his people, was driven from his home in Yosemite by the U.S. Cavalry. It is a very big lake by Yosemite standards and a very popular one, too, wit ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Yosemite"
Lee Vining, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles

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