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Yosemite accomadation suggestions for this week

sun starved Gayle

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My husband has picked up our daughter from college in California and spent a couple of nights in the Bay area. Their plan was to go backpacking in Yosemite for the rest of the week. They are both experienced snow campers and snow shoers, but are not quite sure if they want to deal with the extreme weather Yosemite is having right now.

Any reasonable suggestions of where they could stay, focusing on lower elevations? Every place in the park, from housekeeping cabins on up is full.
 

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I have stayed at Tenaya Lodge, just outside the park. It's overpriced like all the lodging inside the park, but has more comfortable rooms. If you show up to Yosemite NP you can often get a room at the last minute from cancellations, and due to the bad weather there will be lots of no-shows. When I drove into Yosemite in January they were requiring chains (and made us show them to the ranger) even though we had 4WD, so be aware.
 

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Camp 4 has walk up sites available if you have a tent and sleeping bag and is in the valley.

I was there last week and yes the weather was cold for May with quite a bit of snow last Sunday leaving some road closures
 
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Thanks for all the replies. I have passed them on to my husband. He took chains OUT of the car for the drive down to pick our daughter up. He was turned back somewhere in Yosemite and had to make 2 hour detour because of this.
 

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We were fine at Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, right outside the park boundaries, in a riverfront unit.

A few years ago we made a last-minute trip (during snow-melt season, late May - this was the year some of the park was flooded in fact) and everything inside the park was booked up. It's just a motel and nothing to write home about as far as the rooms, but the location was lovely because of the roaring river.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re...Yosemite_View_Lodge-El_Portal_California.html

Edited to add: the mosquitos were so horrendous inside the park, especially around the camping areas as well as some areas we hiked in, we felt sorry for people camping and thanked our lucky stars we had an indoor retreat!

And: there was a good riverfront restaurant along there, I *think* it was at the same place. Much better than park food!
 
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