"Jay Wye" wrote in message news:45ae8c3e@212.67.96.135...
> Advice please on route from Las Vegas to San Francisco via Yosemite, in
> early May.
> I did not realise that the road thro Yosemite would no doubt be closed
> until June or so.
It seems that in the last 30 years the earliest it has opened is
May 2 and the latest June 30.
I must have got lucky. I definately went in the Spring as the
waterfall was 'on'. I went back in September of another year
with a friend and someone had turned it off. I was unaware
that the pass might be closed.
> Would like to visit a couple of parks enroute.
You can drive through Death Valley and then do Mono Lake
hoping that the pass is open. If it isn't you have to travel
further north to Monitor Pass which appears to be open all
year and then drive back toYosemite. (Sonora Pass is a
really good drive too, but I suspect that this is closed even
longer than Tioga).
Or you can loop round via Mojave and Joshua Tree and
enter Yosemite directly from the South West.
I recommend both, but obviously you have to choose one.
tim
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