Day Hiking in Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is an impressive collection of massive trees, massive waterfalls, and massive cliff faces. The famous Yosemite Valley is lined with steep cliff faces with famous names such as Half Dome and El Capitan towering above. Waterfalls crash to the valley floor from these great heights.

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It’s also home to the Giant Sequoias which dwarf Yosemite’s collection of huge Douglass Fir, Ponderosa Pine, and Sugar Pine. In the High Sierra to the north, a unique landscape of alpine meadows and jagged peaks are a delight.

There are trails that take you to all of these wonderful, natural spectacles. Below are 78 day hikes that I’ve identified and ranked for my Day Hikes of Yosemite National Park Map Guide.

The ranking is my recommendation based upon what I feel gives you the most “bang for your buck” starting with the iconic hike up to the top of Half Dome. Click each trail name to learn more about the hike. All of this information and more is included in the Day Hikes of Yosemite National Park Map Guide. It’s the best map for day hiking in Yosemite that cuts through the clutter of all of the options. It includes distances between junctions, color coded trail segments denoting slope steepness, and much more on one side and a guide on the back of the map. Pick one up to take with you on the trail!

Areas are as follows:

• Crane Flat
• Glacier Point
• Hetch Hetchy
• Tioga Road
• Tuolumne Meadows
• Yosemite Valley
• Wawona

Click on table headers to sort by those columns!