Lower Yosemite Fall in midsummer
50 Best Short Hikes Yosemite National Park and Vicinity
2nd EDITION 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Wenk
Front cover photo of Tioga Lake and back cover photo of middle Gaylor Lake copyright © by Elizabeth Wenk
Interior photos, except where noted, by Elizabeth Wenk
Maps and cover design: Scott McGrew
Interior design and layout: Annie Long
Editor: Amber Kaye Henderson
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wenk, Elizabeth.
50 best short hikes Yosemite National Park and vicinity / Elizabeth Wenk. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89997-631-0 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-89997-631-X ()
1. Hiking—California—Yosemite National Park—Guidebooks. 2. Yosemite National Park (Calif.)—Guidebooks. I. Title. II. Title: Fifty best short hikes Yosemite National Park and vicinity.
GV199.42.C22Y67987 2012
917.94’47—dc23
2011053066
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Contents
8 Swinging Bridge and Superintendent’s Bridge
Tioga Road and Tenaya Lake 106