Is Tioga Pass worth driving? Yosemite National Park.

[@theblackbear211]

It is a great Drive, I've been over several times, and from both directions. For me, it never gets old.

[@charlesboyer61]

Yes, it is very much worth driving, and in both directions. Visitors to Yosemite National Park should consider making a day trip to Tuolumne Meadows, then down the pass to Lee Vining, Mono Lake and Bodie, the huge ghost town. It's very different than Yosemite on the east side of the pass -- the desert begins in earnest, and conditions are far harsher than what you might find on the valley floor in YNP.

[@biffmalarkey]

Years ago, on my trip to the canyon loop of Arizona and Utah, I included Yosemite on my early tour. I only wanted to see the valley and refresh my memories from decades before. I drove across the Sierras from Route 395 on Highway 108, Sonora Pass. I highly recommend this if you have not driven it. Very beautiful and thrilling because of the steep grades, (26%), sharp turns (obey the 10mph speed limit on curves), and general narrowness of the road in parts. Anyway, I got to the entrance to Yosemite and the ranger said I was three hours from the valley due to traffic and the high country would be a better option. I had never been to this part before and am so glad I got to see it and do the drive.

[@TonyCorsaro]

Beautiful from either side. When they’d allow it, we used to ride to Tuolumne from Lee Vining on road bikes before the Pass opened in Spring. It’s a big bike path with no cars!

[@alantupper3716]

Beautiful ride either way on a motorcycle, RV or car.

[@laniergreenhaw3115]

Highly recommend Tioga Pass!! Beautiful drive.

[@JustDriveAmerica]

Thanks for your comment!

[@stevenelson3515]

Tioga Pass is wonderful. So is Sonora Pass on CA108.

[@yardboy3955]

I always look forward to going back, when driving downhill back to Lee Vining, try not to speed and to drive slow, stay calm and try not to get distracted looking over the edge, if there are cars behind you, pull over and let them past and you’ll be ok. That’s what I do. It’s not a race to see who gets down the hill the fastest.

[@johnfreeman3747]

I would love to drive this road 👍

[@HazyJohnson]

This is one of the best drives I have ever done. If you are in Yosemite N.P. you have to drive it.

[@NickWainwright6970]

It’s currently under 20 feet of snow!

[@helenmokennen7919]

So Beautiful

[@leonardofeix7269]

I want so visit the Sequoia National Park too but doing that I wont be able using the 395 highway and entering o the tioga pass by lee vining ?

[@JustDriveAmerica]

When we stayed in Mammoth Lakes, we drove Tioga Pass all the way up to Olmsted Point and returned back. Next day we went to see Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest near Bishop. Then we stayed overnight in Lone Pine and drove all the way to Sequoia N.P. next day, going south on US -395 and going west on CA-178 towards Bakersfield and then north towards Three Rivers. I suppose it can be done in reverse. Enjoy your road trip.

[@MichelleGralike]

What month was this drive into Yosemite please? Was it autumn?

[@JustDriveAmerica]

Late October, early November

[@angelaford9122]

So beautiful, did your ears pop going up ?

[@JustDriveAmerica]

I don't think they did. We were so exited that we didn't notice.

[@Taranau]

"is Tioga Pass worth driving?" is that a rhetorical question?

[@williampettersen5348]

I crapped by pantalón driving West to East. Scary!!

[@adamreiss8446]

I drove it from Tuolumne Meadows down to Mono Lake in 1990, still gives the the shudders when i think about it, scared the life out of me, there was no guard rail at all in those days, only when you reached the bottom near the lake, where there were no drop offs.

[@yardboy3955]

@@adamreiss8446 I agree with you, driving east downhill to Lee Vining scares me the most. I’m going to try and go one more time this year and hope I make down that hill safe.

[@JoBrown-d2r]

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