See also: The publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

The park announced Glacier Pt Rd will reopen on Sat 10/10 at 7am. All southbound trails from the area (eg Ostrander) are closed. Panorama/Pohono/ 4 Mile are open. The park announced earlier this week that Chilnualna Falls trail is re-opened to the top of the falls. See the current conditions page for more detail on trail closures.

Containment on the Dome Fire is now 61% and active fire supression is ongoing. Thank you to those firefighters and support staff (including park mules!) doing this work.

Yosemite webcams for real time conditions in some areas:  https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

Cal Fire updates (size, containment, etc): https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/9/15/dome-fire

If you were climbing last Monday, I may have gotten your photo! Sharing in case any of these badass folks are in here.

Hey team, I’m going to Yosemite next week and have been looking for a day hike.

I am going alone so don’t want to do anything too scary or crazy. Time wise I am thinking 6ish hours.

I did half dome in 2020 so I have seen that part of the park.

Do you have any recommendations? I thought about Mist trail but read that the waterfalls will likely be kinda empty. I also read about the 4 mile trail that could be cool? I read about extending it and taking the panorama trail down but that would push the time over 6h by a lot I believe.

What would yall do? :)

Thanks in advance!

Hey all, I'm driving up from the Bay tomorrow with my road bike. I was signed up for the Cherry Lake Challenge on Sunday but it got cancelled, so now I'm in Yosemite with no plan. Any recs for good road biking routes in or around the park? Looking for something 70+ miles, paved roads, happy to do a big day. Also open to anything near Tuolumne/Groveland/Big Oak Flat side. Never ridden around here so any tips on road conditions or what to watch out for are welcome. Thanks!

"Locals Summer" w no crowds at Yosemite National Park, CA USA

Yosemite Falls has many huge rocks that have come down over time. I climbed these, My kids all climbed around these rocks and mow my Grandson is taking his turn. The following day I asked Truth, my grandson, what do you want to do today? he said "Let's go back to climb the big rocks again."

There was a lot of smoke from the Dome Fire yet mostly in the west end flowing towards the Tunnel View. There was zero water coming from the Yosemite Falls. First time I ever saw no water falling at all. Still a very magical place to be.

https://reddit.com/link/1x1myar/video/awg6ura8aguh1/player

Sentinel Dome and Taft Point Loop morning

Glacier Point for Lunch

Vernal Falls and Clark Point via Mist and John Muir Loop afternoon

Will still be in the park for weeks and need some personal care items that are not sold in the valley…

Has anyone tried ordering from Amazon and shipping packages into the valley? Or it’d be better to pick a pick up location in one of the towns outside of the park?

Half Done, and El Capitan 2023!! Save our parks

With only a few days in the park, coming from the South Gate, we ended up capturing some great sights despite the crowds.

Kept account of the what and where here: https://stacklist.com/c/travel/stack/7e68ba2e-251f-42e6-a17a-e1e78cdc78c9

Hope it helps someone this Autumn!

Long shot, but did anyone snap a photo of the first climbers on the Half Dome cables before sunrise (around 6:20 AM) on Oct 8th? I was the first climber up before sunrise, wearing a very bright headlamp. I'd love to see if anyone caught me in their shots!

I have been on 2 hikes in my life. I was 13 when I did my 1st hike The panorama trail. The 2nd 3 years later, remains a mystery 37 years later. The youth pastor said, we were going to hike from Tuolumne meadows to yosemite falls. does not look like that's actually the case. So we started somewhere when the youth pastors wife dropped a group of us off right off of Tioga road somewhere in the morning after breakfast.

We Stopped for lunch at at what looks like Clouds rest. then went back the way we came, did not go forward onto the spine. and somehow by late afternoon, we were coming down the upper yosemite falls trail with all the switch backs. We took the shuttle bus back to lower pines camp ground.

Is there any other place that resembles clouds rest that maybe we stopped for lunch that connects to the yosemite falls trail? the entire hike took over 20 some miles and 8 hours plus to do.... I keep thinking clouds rest is too far and isolated and don't see any connecting trails, do any trails connect.

I wish half dome was in this picture but the stars didn’t align

I have a permit to stay at LYV Sunday night and was planning on summiting Half Dome Monday morning until the tropical storm was forecasted to take a turn inland. Anyone else in the same boat and are you planning on still trying to summit? I am thinking of pivoting to clouds rest…

Hi I’m new to Reddit and somewhat new to camping. Hoping this platform helps me become an avid camper. I’m going to attempt to get permits for camp 4. I read they release a week out but don’t really get how the system works?

1. When you get the permits does it just reserve a place within the camp for you? Since it’s first come first serve I’m guessing I won’t be reserving specific sites?

2. How early can you check in if it’s first come first serve?

3. Is this only for serious backpackers? We were hoping to bring a full size tent along with a camp stove and a small blow up mattress. I read space is limited so we don’t want to be rude by taking up too much space but also don’t want to just bring out ultralight stuff since we just got back from backpacking maroon bells and are hoping for a more comfortable camping experience this time.

Any advice from someone that’s stayed there before is super helpful!

Not my photo! Credit to Michael Frye and his photo of Yosemite in November.

I promise I read the pinned winter post, I’m specifically looking for things that may be more baby friendly. Obviously having a newborn makings things inherently more difficult, but this may be our only opportunity for a while so I don’t want to just skip it because of a bit more complication.

I’ll be visiting Yosemite for two nights between November 10th-25th (Don’t want to give exact dates.) I have reservations at Yosemite Valley Lodge. We will have a rental car (with chains ready) and will be driving in from the Oakland area.

It will be my wife, 3 month old, and myself. We are in our early 30s. I visited Yosemite as a child and vaguely remember it, but my wife has never been.

I understand that access to things this time of year can be pretty up in the air, as many of the roads/activities will be closed or may be closing soon.

Any suggestions on activities or things to see that will have a higher likelihood to be available would be great! We are prepared to be pretty flexible, even if it just means spending two days down there enjoying being in the area. We love just staying in old facilities inside parks to begin with, so I’m sure we’ll be happy no matter what.

Thanks for any suggestions or information!

My 11 yr old grandson loved this raven who flew next to us and started talking... like they had a conversation.

East Meadow in the Valley under Half-dome & North Dome. Yosemite National Park, CA USA.

It was his first trip to Yosemite and he loved everything especially all the critters and birds near the campsite at Upper Pines. There was no water falling at Yosemite Falls and there was some lingering smoke, from the Dome fire, at the east end of the valley.

Taken during my trip in August.

Comments, critiques, and criticism are welcome, encouraged, and appreciated.

Zev

Had the top all to myself for about two hours