Backpacker camp, yosemite

imported
#1

Where eactly is this camp? Are reservations required?
Do they turn folks away?

stiker

#2

It’s behind the stables and across a little footbridge. Not much help, huh? You’ll have to get a map of Yosemite Valley and then call a ranger there to locate it. It’s not marked on the map as I recall, but the stable and other areas are.

Doug

#3

Got this off Yosemite Parks website:

Backpackers’ Campgrounds

Walk-in campgrounds are available seasonally in the Tuolumne Meadows Campground, at Hetch Hetchy, and behind North Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley. Wilderness permit holders may spend one night before and one night after a wilderness trip in any one of these campgrounds. The cost is $5.00 per person per night. Reservations are not necessary.

Ken

Ken

#4

I used the TM walk-in campground on my SOBO JMT trip last July. I walked from YV to TM on day one and was concerned about a site and the caveat that you can only stay in this campground the day prior to or after your entry into the wilderness. “Leaving the wilderness,” I was told, “would void my wilderness permit.”

Based on my experience, the campground had plenty of spaces and I don’t think anyone cares what your circumstances are regarding when you use it. It worked for me. Bring exact change and keep heading east until you find it.

I met up with other JMT hikers who had stayed at the YV walk-in campground successfully prior to their trip. I thought I would get better sleep at Camp Curry and I was probably wrong. The tent cabins are so close I couldn’t have been more than 8 feet from my neighbors both ways who stayed up way later than I wanted to. Tylenol PM was helpful though…

Dave

#5

YV backpacker camp is pretty nice, as far as camping in the Valley goes. At least it’s away from roads. Behind and on the other side of the river from North Pines, as indicated above. When staying there I did not get the impression that campground capacity was an issue, as long as you had picked up a valid wilderness permit to begin a hike within 24 hours.

As elsewhere in the Valley, the bears there are extremely bold. I saw one bluff charge another camper, then swipe the bag of food he was in the midst of preparing. While the campers were focusing on this commotion, two other bears were sneaking in from the opposite side to see what they could snatch.

Shelly Culbertson