» posted on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 9:58 pm by admin
Add to My Trips Pitch a Tent and Savor Yosemite’s Summer as it was Meant to Be
Add to My Trips 
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park, CA 95389
Phone: (209) 372-0200
http://www.nps.gov/yose Few things are sweeter than a starry High Sierra summer night, or a gloaming evening with the last light fading until the pines turn dark, or the initial touch of dawn bringing the crannies and folds of this World Heritage Site’s soaring cliffs front and center. Sadly, most of the millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park each year miss these moments because they’re holed up in a hotel, walled off from the touches of natural grandeur.
John Muir and Ansel Adams nobly conveyed Yosemite’s beauty in their work, but it means little until you watch the night stars yourself, appearing one by one, until their numbers crick your neck and spin your mind. With warm, dry summers, Yosemite is ideal for camping—the trick is to land a spot.
The campgrounds in the valley book up months in advance. But there are great options outside the main valley floor that are easier to book and have charms of their own. In a lodgepole-pine forest way up at 8,000 feet, the White Wolf campground is a taste of the Yosemite high country without the drudgery of backpacking.
