Yosemite 5 Day Tours - Tour Only (no accomodation)_PARTNER

Customize your multi-day tour to Yosemite National Park from San Francisco by booking your own hotel accommodation. Enjoy free time to enjoy the park’s wilderness, towering granite cliffs, Giant Sequoias and awe-inspiring waterfalls.

Our 5-star tour will introduce you to the many summertime and wintertime activities so don’t miss the history, geology and wildlife that make Yosemite Valley the jewel of the U.S. National Parks.

Your Yosemite Giant Sequoia Tour begins on your outbound day with a pickup at your hotel, then heads east crossing through California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley and into the rocky Sierra Nevada mountains.

Your heart (and cameras) will be racing as you enter Yosemite Valley and enjoy a stop at Tunnel View. Take a few moments for fantastic photos with El Capitan, Half Dome and Bridalveil Falls as your backdrop.

Your free and unguided time begins after leaving the vehicle at Stop #7 (Valley Lodge) to spend a few hours enjoying the Yosemite Valley’s many attractions. As the afternoon gets late, you will want to get on the YARTS bus and make your way to check into your separately booked hotel.

Take one or more days to enjoy the park before your return day. In spring and summer choose from hiking, biking, rock climbing, rafting, fishing or nighttime stargazing (activities not included).

In winter, check with the park rangers to arrange winter hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, tubing or ice skating (activities depend on conditions and are not included).

On your return day to San Francisco, meet our tour vehicle at Stop #7 (Valley Lodge) at the time in our confirmation email.

After boarding the vehicle for the trip back to San Francisco, the highlight of our tour is still ahead as we head to the Tuolumne Grove of Giant Sequoias. In this beautiful grove, you’ll have the chance to get up close and personal with some of the largest and oldest trees on earth. You won’t doubt for a second that these are the largest living creatures on the planet. No picture does them justice but that should not keep you from trying!

In winter, when conditions on the Tuolumne Grove trail are snow covered or unsafe, we substitute this experience with other attractions.  

We’re so confident that our overnight Yosemite Valley Tour from San Francisco will amaze—it’s backed by a Satisfaction Guarantee.

Note: If you are not staying at one of the hotels within Yosemite Valley, bring with you what you can easily carry since there is very limited bin space on the tour vehicle or the YARTS shuttles.

Know Before You Go: 

·         A $50 handling fee will be charged for any luggage item larger than a carry-on brought on the tour bus.

Itinerary 

Outbound Day (conditions permitting)*

Outbound Day

05:30 AM to 10:00 AM

●       Convenient hotel pickup

●       Learn about Yosemite and California as you cross the Central Valley

●       Rest stop. Pick up snacks and lunch for the park

●       Enter Yosemite National Park

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

●       Admire Yosemite Valley and Half Dome from Tunnel View

●       Relax and enjoy the view as you descend into Yosemite Valley

●       Feel the mist on your face at Bridalveil Fall

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

●       Free time to explore Yosemite Valley

●       Enjoy our guided audio tour of Yosemite Valley

●       Photograph the Merced River from the Swinging Bridge

●       Use our unique audio guide to hike to Yosemite Falls

Between 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM

●       Enjoy more free time to explore Yosemite Valley

Use public transportation to reach your separately arranged hotel (not included)

Unguided, free time in Yosemite Valley (activities not included)

●       Hike the Bridalveil Fall, Lower Yosemite Fall or Mirror Lake Loop trails

●       Be challenged by the Valley Loop, Vernal Fall, or Half Dome trails

●       Take YARTS bus to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias

●       Take the Grand Tour of Yosemite with park rangers

●       Enjoy rock climbing, bird watching, rafting, horseback riding and more

Return Day

1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

●       Board the return vehicle at Stop #7 (Valley Lodge)

●       Stop to photograph El Capitan

●       Take a group photo at Valley View

●       Hike the Tuolumne Grove trail to Giant Sequoia redwoods (conditions permitting)

4:30 to 9:00 PM

●       Reflect on your day as you leave the Sierra Nevada Mountains

●       Stop for a dinner break

●       Watch as the sun sets into California’s golden hills

●       Conclude the tour at your pickup location in San Francisco

* When the Giant Sequoias hike is unsafe due to ice and snow (typically from November to March), we substitute additional activities in Yosemite Valley.

On these winter tour days, THE TIME TO MEET THE RETURN VEHICLE WILL BE 2:30 PM.

Times in the itinerary are approximate. Traffic and other unforeseen issues can cause delays or changes which are out of our control. Please do not make flight/travel arrangements on the same day as your tour.