Tuolumne Meadows

Category: Parks

Tuolumne Meadows are expansive and beautiful fields with the High Sierras as their backdrop. This is an excellent area for hiking, star-gazing, and camping. It is easily accessible as a day trip from Yosemite Valley, which we did on our second day in the park. It's definitely cold up along the Tioga Pass, though -- even on Labor Day weekend, the temperature was getting down into the 20's at night!