Yosemitehikes.com Website Review

YOSEMITE HIKES: THE BEST PLACES TO TAKE YOUR FEET IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. handful of European countries and nearly the size of Rhode Island. It also has more than 800 miles of trails, and you're likely to spend lots of your Yosemite vacation wandering on them. Whether you prefer paved thoroughfares that never take you beyond shouting distance of a restaurant (a perfectly respectable approach) or remote paths where man has never before set foot (except perhaps to build the trail you're on), you'll find it here. This is the place people are usually thinking of when they think about Yosemite. Many of the things Yosemite is famous for are here: El all those tourists have good reason to be here. There's simply no place else like it anywhere. Tioga Pas* Road is the A-list destination for the Yosemite sightseer who can't decide what he wants. It's got some of everything - granite Sequoias just hanging out in the parking lot that people would normally drive hundreds of miles to see, yet they're completely overlooked here due to the larger-than-life presences of the Grizzly Giant, the California Tunnel Tree, and a host of others. If you want to find out whether or not you're afraid of heights, there's no more scenic way to do it than to try the hikes off Glacier Point Road. Any of the trails with Point in the name lead to jaw-dropping, vertigo-inducing views over the sheer walls of Yosemite find a fabulous 360-degree vista and possibly the most revered tree, thanks to Ansel Adams and scores of other photographers, that ever lay Hetch Hetchy Valley has been flooded for more than 80 years, much to the detriment of its own beauty and the environmental cred of the city of San Francisco, which is adamantly opposed to tearing the dam down. Despite the valley's destruction, there are still things to see here -