Parks in Strawberry, California

A longtime favorite with anglers, Emigrant Lake is often used as a base camp for short fishing trips to the numerous lakes that lie close by. Lush alpine meadows surrounding isolated ... More on Trails

The varied and incomparable scenery along this leg of the TYTwhich travels from Kennedy Meadow to Tuolumne Meadows and offers emerald meadows, granitic and metamorphic peaks, jewellike lakes, bubbling creeks, panoramic ... More on Trails

Scenically, this route splits the terrain into two distinctly different parts. To the north, the basaltic and pumice slopes vividly disclose the volcanic overlay that gives the area its colorful ... More on Trails

If you're going to climb 17 miles to the top you can try this. Park in the store in Strawberry. Start climbing up the Hwy 120 about a mile or so and look for the dirt road on the right side of the ... More on trails.mtbr.com

WE rode Hwy 108 to Herring Creek Road and climbed that until it turned to dirt (about 6-7 miles). More on trails.mtbr.com

This ride is a combination of roads and trails that includes the lower half of the Pinecrest Peak Downhill. If you've ridden Pinecrest Peak, this route gets perhaps more technical in one section an... More on trails.mtbr.com

Also at the very bottom of the ride, where the trail merges with a trail along the Stanislaus River, you can turn left and go to a big log that crosses the river and continue on a trail to highway ... More on trails.mtbr.com

Learn to Pan & Sluice for Gold on the Historic Woods Creek. Open Daily, Reservations Recommended, Cost Var... More on Visitcalifornia.com

The rest of the day we found a few more nuggletts and a bit of dust. More on insiderpages.com

This paved trail climbs 60 feet along the west side of Tenaya Creek to the aptly named Mirror Lake, where overhanging rock formations reflect in the lake's still surface. This ... More on Frommers

Beautiful trail in the winter. The snow and ice add so much to the views. T More on Trails

A famous vertical rock formation within Yosemite National Park - considered a world challenge for rock clim... More on GeckoGo

Beautiful! More on GeckoGo

This hike sounds long, but there's a one-way option in the summer that uses the Wawona shuttle bus for the return trip. The trail climbs through a forest and then ... More on Frommers

Any visit to Yosemite National Park is incomplete without a trip through one of the parks three groves of giant sequoias. The Mariposa Grove is the largest of the three, with over 200 big trees tha... More on Trails

This hike approaches Yosemite Falls from behind and ends up at the same place as the Upper Yosemite Fall hike described earlier in this chapter, without the steep climb up from the valley floor. After hiking 2 miles, you'll see ... More on Frommers