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Here are our Top 10 tips for visiting Yosemite National Park video! We stopped by Yosemite as part of our Pacific Coast Highway trip. Below is a link to the highlight video 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!
Highlight Video
• Pacific Coast Highway,...
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 (www.vrbo.com/1...) - 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 (www.airbnb.com...) - 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
- Music by MBB (info below) and Kygo
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