Best Easy Day Hikes Yosemite National Park

by Suzanne Swedo

Overview

For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuide has set the standard for outdoor recreation guidebooks. Written by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, each guide invites you to experience the endless adventure and rugged beauty of the great outdoors.

Best Easy Day Hikes Yosemite National Park includes concise descriptions and easy-to-follow maps for twenty-four short hikes on well-defined trails through some of the most spectacular scenery in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493040339
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2019
Series:	Best Easy Day Hikes Series
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	498,929
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Swedo is the author of numerous FalconGuides, including Hiking Yosemite National Park. The director of W.I.L.D, a company that offers natural history adventures around the world, she has worked as a naturalist in Yosemite for 30 years. She lives with her family in the Los Angeles area.

Table of Contents

	Ranking the Hikes	xi
	Introduction	1
	Map Legend	6
	Trails in Yosemite Valley	7
1	East Valley Floor	7
2	Happy Isles to Vernal Fall	11
3	Mirror Lake	14
4	Lower Yosemite Fall	17
5	Bridalveil Fall	20
	Wawona Road Trails	23
6	Mariposa Grove	23
7	Wawona Meadow	26
8	Chilnualna Fall	29
	Glacier Point Road Trails	32
9	Glacier Point	32
10	Illilouette Fall	35
11	Sentinel Dome	39
12	Taft Point and the Fissures	42
13	McGurk Meadow	45
	Tioga Road Trails	48
14	Tuolumne Grove	48
15	Lukens Lake	51
16	May Lake	53
17	Olmstead Point Nature Trail	56
18	Tenaya Lake	59
	Tuolumne Meadows Trails	62
19	Pothole Dome	62
20	Dog Lake	65
21	Lembert Dome	68
22	Soda Springs and Parsons Lodge	71
23	Lyell Fork	74
	Hetch Hetchy Trail	77
24	Wapama Falls	77