Scenic route
Tioga Road
The only road across Yosemite’s high country climbs from forest to the 9,945-foot Tioga Pass, past granite domes, alpine meadows, and Tuolumne’s glacier-polished slabs.
Why drive it
Yosemite’s high country, dome to meadow.
Open only in summer and fall (snow closes it the rest of the year). Stop at Olmsted Point for the back of Half Dome and swim at Tenaya Lake.
States on this route
The signature stops
What to pull over for.
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