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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK – Tioga Road, the trans-Sierra highway through Yosemite National Park, opened at 10 a.m. Wednesday, the National Park Service announced.The road closes with the first snow in fall and usually reopens around Memorial Day after crews clear the snow.No services will be available through the holiday. The campgrounds and the visitor center at Tuolumne Meadows will remain closed for the next several weeks. There will be road-side pit toilets. Visitors are urged to take extra safety precautions, especially along the Merced River.
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Ted, Fly Fishing for Stripers 05.26.09 at 7:55 am
I’ve only been to Yosemite once, and Tioga Road was closed — too early in the spring. As I visited when driving from San Francisco back to the East Coast it was a very long side trip but worth it!
I swore I’d make it back, and now 15 years later, with 3 little kids, I’m starting to make plans for hopefully next summer. Hoping for early summer