Top 10 Tips for Visiting Yosemite National Park

Here are our Top 10 tips for visiting Yosemite National Park! We stopped by Yosemite as part of our Pacific Coast Highway trip. Below is a link to the abridged version of the whole trip as well as the itinerary. I've included our lodging, restaurants, hikes, and everything else we did! Thanks for watching and I hope this helps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9unjApTty0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AndrewWang

Intro: 0:00
Tip 10. Plan Ahead: 0:45
Tip 9. Days to Spend: 1:49
Tip 8. Visit During Summer/Fall: 3:01
Tip 7. Lodging: 4:12
Tip 6. Restaurants/Breweries: 5:55
Tip 5. Favorite Hikes: 8:26
Tip 4. Early Bird Gets the Worm: 10:54
Tip 3. Wildlife: 12:55
Tip 2. Sunrise/Sunset: 14:29
Tip 1. Enjoy It/Extra Tips: 15:56
Closing: 17:36
Credits/Outtakes: 18:05

Day 1 - Fly into Medford
- Stop by Costco for alcohol, snacks, fruit, water
- Stay @ VRBO Cabin (https://www.vrbo.com/1926661?noDates=true&unitId=2489180) - 8/10

Day 2 - Crescent City, CA
- Jedidiah Smith State Park - 7/10
- Trails
- Stout Memorial Grove (0.7 miles) - 8/10
- Simpson-Reed Trail (0.8 miles) - 7/10
- Drive Howland Hill Road - 8/10
- Lunch at Seaquake Brewing - 7.5/10
- Other Food options
- Port O Pints
- Good Harvest Cafe
- Crescent Seafood
- House of Jambalaya
- Battery Point Lighthouse - 7/10
- Stay @ VRBO Cabin (same as above)

Day 3 - Drive From Crescent to Mendocino
- Trees of Mystery (Paul Bunyan) - 4/10
- Klamath River Overlook - Too foggy to see - ?/10
- Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway Drive - 8/10
- Big Tree - 7.5/10
- Ah-Pah - 7/10
- Lady Bird Johnson Grove (1.3 miles) - 9/10
- Fern Canyon Trail (0.5 miles) - 9/10
- Lunch at Cafe Waterfront (Eureka) - 7/10
- Other food options
- Brick and Fire Bistro
- Ramon’s Bakery
- Lost Coast Brewery
- Humbodlt State Park - 9/10
- Avenue of the Giants - 9/10
- Shrine Drive Thru Tree ($10) - 4/10
- Founders Grove Nature Trail (0.5 mile) - 8/10
- Leggett Chandlier Drive Thru Tree ($10) - 4.5/10
- Glass Beach at Fort Bragg - 6.5/10
- Dinner @ Patterson's Pub (Mendocino) - 8/10
- Other food options
- Cafe Beaujolais
- Luna Trattoria
- Mendocino Cafe
- Wild Fish
- Trillium
- Stay @ Blue Door Inn - 8.5/10

Day 4 - Drive from Mendocino to Yosemite
- Lunch at Around the horn brewing company - 8/10
- Other food options west of Yosemite entrance
- Iron Door Saloon
- Lucky Buck Cafe (breakfast only?)
- Priest Station cafe (lunch only?)
- Stay @ Rush Creek Lodge - 9/10

Day 5 - Yosemite
- Vernal Falls Trail (3.5 miles, moderate) - 9/10
- Picnic for lunch at Sentinel Meadows - 8/10
- Lower Yosemite Falls Trails (1 miles, easy) - 7.5/10
- Other Trails
- Upper Yosemite Falls (7.2 miles - hard)
- Sentinel Dome Trail (2.1 miles - easy, OPEN from May to September)
- Glacier Point Trail (0.6 miles - easy, OPEN from May to September)
- Dinner at Rush creek dining (make reservation) - 8/10
- Other food options
- Ahwahnee Dining Room
- Yosemite Lodge Restaurants
- Stay @ Rush Creek Lodge - 9/10

Day 6 - Yosemite
- Sunrise at Tunnel View - 9/10
- Mirror Lake via Valley Loop Trail (6.1 miles, easy) - 6/10
- Artist Point Trail (0.5 miles, easy) - 7/10
- Picnic for lunch on grass below El Capitan - 8.5/10
- Dinner at Southgate brewing company - 8/10
- Other food options
- Smokehouse 41
- Sugar Pine Pizza
- Erna’s Elderberry House
- Stay @AirBnb MicroCabin (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19269566?source_impression_id=p3_1622684797_F49ExBA94bGU2Ps0) - 7/10

Day 7 - Carmel by the Sea/Monterey/Santa Cruz
- Cannery Row (Monterey) - 6.5/10
- Lunch at Old Fisherman's Wharf (clam chowder) - 7/10
- Other food options (Monterey)
- Old fisherman’s grotto
- Lou Lou’s griddle in the middle
- Cafe fina
- Other food options (Carmel)
- RG Burgers
- PortaBella
- Pangaea Grill
- Flying Fish Grill
- 17-mile drive ($10) - 8/10
- Carmel by the Sea Shopping - 8/10
- Alvarado Brewing Company - 9/10
- Santa Cruz Boardwalk - 7/10
- Food options at Santa Cruz
- Linda’s Seabreeze Cafe
- Harbor Cafe
- Alderwood
- Humble Sea Brewery
- Stay @West Cliffs Inn - 9/10

Day 8 - Big Sur/Santa Barbera
- Stay @ Brisas Del Mar - 6/10
- Big Sur - 9/10
- Bixby Bridge (North pulloff) - 9/10
- Point Sur Light Station - 7.5/10
- McWay Falls - 8/10
- Dinner at Stonehouse @ San Ysidro Ranch - 9/10
- Other Food options
- Finney’s Crafthouse
- The Palace Grill



Equipment
- GoPro Hero 9
- DJI Mavic Air 2
- Panasonic Lumix G85

Credits
- Video recorded, edited, and produced by AnJrue
- Some photos by TripAdvisor, AllYosemite.com, Nps.Org
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