Visit to Yosemite National Park - Touleme Meadows Campground

Having recently visited Yosemite National Park, wanted to share some photos of the Park's sites and impressions of the Touleme Meadows Campgrounds.

This was our first visit to Yosemite. We normally visit National Parks in September or October after vacations are normally over for most people and kids have gone back to school. There are usually less crowds and this held somewhat true for Yosemite in late September. The crowds were smaller, but the other park campgrounds down in Yosemite Valley were full and potential campers were waiting each day for a spot to open up. Touleme Meadows had several open spots. The campground only has electricity and water at the campsites for the campsite hosts. It does have potable water for filling your fresh water tank and a dump station near the Touleme Visitor's Center. We chose stay at Touleme Meadows because we made reservations late after having purchased our TM. It was also closer to the East Entrance where we entered and I wasn't familiar with the Park and its road. Rather than take a chance on not being able to tow the TM down into the Valley, we parked it the Touleme Meadows Campground and drove down into the Valley on the two days we visited that part of the Park. I don't think the SportTrac would have had a problem towing the TM down and back out, but what we did was ok. Although I would consider Touleme Meadows Campground a primitive campground, it was pleasant during the day and cold at night (25 degrees). This would probably be the campground of choice for me during a summer visit - it would defintely be cooler than the Valley camprgrounds since it's at 8,900 feet.

Yosemite is a beautiful National Park. I've never seen that much granite. What impressive sites El Capitan and Half Dome were. The trip up to Glacier Point is worth the drive. From there you can practically see all of the major sites of the Park. Climbers were on both El Capitan and Half Dome that day.

Although I don't have pictures of Touleme Meadows Campground - I've included some shots of the Park's main attractions. In the order they appear below: Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, Glacier Point - Half Dome in background, Half Dome, Lone Tree, Tenaya Lake.