Great destination! Enjoyed the open trail and peaceful outdoor atmosphere.

Excellent experience, very hard to get as campsites here are competitive.

Tuolumne Meadows is an amazing area, and this campground is well positioned. A couple great hikes start from the campground itself. The bathroom facilities are fine. No showers or hot water are available in the campground (and no showers are available for campers anywhere along the whole Tioga road), but there is running water and there are dishwater dump stations. Unfortunately, it was difficult to get sleep here. There was a fire ban in effect below 8000' and above 9600', which basically means all campgrounds in Yosemite except this one. So despite the naturally clear air (California had an amazing respite from wildfires in 2026), the campground was often thick with hazardous levels of smoke in evenings and mornings. I don't understand why people suddenly feel the need to burn things when they camp, but the problem is compounded by people who don't know how to make fires and who use wet scavenged wood rather than buying seasoned wood. We also had the misfortune to be near the group camps, which were frequently loud and always, always seemed to include at least one loudly crying baby in every group. (We were there for 9 nights, so we saw a lot of turnover, but every new group also brought crying babies.) It's regrettable that the work recently done to this campground was often done poorly. They added features to direct water flows, but in many campsites (including ours) these flows go right through the sites and already exceed designed capacity. The asphalt of the road next to our site was already being undercut by water flow. It will start collapsing soon. One positive feature is the ranger campfire talks, which were fun and engaging (and the rangers knew how to make fires, so smoke was rarely an issue with them). We also did coffee with a ranger one morning, and it was a nice chat with unexpectedly good coffee. It's the best place to stay in Tuolumne Meadows (the Lodge is even worse when it comes to smoke), but it needs a fire ban to actually be good.

Hard to get reservations, but a nice campground at altitude.

Great destination! Enjoyed the open trail and peaceful outdoor atmosphere.