The park embraces 1,200 square miles of wilderness, set aside in 1890 to preserve a portion of the Central Sierra Nevada that stretches along California's eastern most borders. If you've the stomach, you can get on your belly and crawl to Half Dome's lip and then gape down the 2,000-foot sheared face. The Big Oak Flat entrance on Highway 20 West from Modesto and Manteca 2. The south entrance on Highway 41 North from Fresno 3. The Arch Rock entrance on Highway 140 West from Merced 4.
Reservations are highly recommended, especially during the summer months.
East Home Ave., Fresno, California 93727. The Great Outdoors Recreation Page will fill you in on much of what you need to know when planning a trip into our national parks. They have excellent maps and several useful links to help plan your vacation. This is the National Park Service home page and will link you to information concerning any national park within the United States. This is a site devoted solely to the Yosemite National Park and can give you updates on road conditions and provide you with maps, lodging, photography, points of interest and much more.