Start your ride in Mariposa, a picturesque town at the foot of the Sierras. The cool Merced river will be a welcome sight after crossing Midpines summit. Follow the river, pass two campgrounds before arriving at El Portal. Spanish for "gateway", El Portal is the central entrance to the park and has the easiest grade of the three. Traffic Warning: the only part of this route with any shoulder is the section of HWY 49 (starting in Oakhurst) and HWY 140 to Briceburg. Both of the one way roads in the west end of Yosemite valley are beautiful and open to cyclists, but are somewhat hazardous due to the lack of shoulders and tourists looking to snap photos of waterfalls and bears.
-Mapped by Wayne Riley
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Yosemite National Park: Glacier Point
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Downtown Mariposa
Location: 37.489434°, -119.970188°
Food and lodging are available.
Old Miner's Cabin near Mariposa
Location: 37.501283°, -119.971562°
Merced River south of Briceburg
Location: 37.603896°, -119.968557°
Swimming in the Merced River
Location: 37.637752°, -119.931393°
Single Lane Bridges
Location: 37.659499°, -119.901524°
Since May, 2006, CA Rt. 140 has been buried under a large landslide. For now there are 2 single lane bridges to route traffic around the slide. It could cost $100 million to fix it. And there is still ten times the 90,000 cubic yards that have fallen poised precariously on the ridge above
Yosemite Park Entrance
Location: 37.679473°, -119.761276°
Cyclist pay $10, which is good for 7 days at all CA National Parks
Entering Yosemite Valley
Location: 37.718726°, -119.661026°
McGurk Meadow
Location: 37.743300°, -119.600086°
Bear cub in the underbrush
Location: 37.744929°, -119.552107°
From Nevada Falls Bridge
Location: 37.739906°, -119.553051°
Curry Village Tent Cabins
Location: 37.739227°, -119.574165°
Near Curry Village
Location: 37.742214°, -119.591160°
View from near the entrance to the tunnel
Location: 37.715399°, -119.676046°
Wawona Tunnel
Location: 37.715739°, -119.687119°
After crossing the Pohono Bridge, you climb steadily up to the Wawona Tunnel. This .8 mile tunnel is dark and hazardous; be careful.
Clouds reflect the setting sun over Half Dome
Location: 37.714449°, -119.582834°
Glacier Point view of the valley
Location: 37.712615°, -119.586353°
Nevada Falls from Glacier Point
Location: 37.710443°, -119.587984°
Panorama from Glacier Point
Location: 37.719134°, -119.580517°
North Fork of the Merced River in Wawona
Location: 37.534573°, -119.644117°
Giant Sequoia or Alien Legs?
Location: 37.507411°, -119.629269°
Sequoia Road Split near Sugar Pine
Location: 37.431932°, -119.639568°
Oakhurst didn't always have cheezy tourist props.
Location: 37.333041°, -119.651413°
The town was settled in the 1850's by people who saw 'gold' in supplying thousands of miners with all their provisional supplies. It was built with permanence in mind and not a temporary camp that just happened to survive.
Will Pose For Food
Location: 37.340547°, -119.677677°
Triangle Road
Location: 37.483168°, -119.811745°
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