When you are staying at the Wawona Hotel Yosemite you have signed up for a fun vacation where relaxing, and taking in the sites is combined with a number of activities for you to choose from. You will not want to stay cooped up in your room, no matter how nice the Wawona Hotel in Yosemite is! Following are some fun hikes to get out outside and experiencing YOSEMITE the way it was meant to be experienced:

Bridalveil Fall: 0.5 miles round trip, 20 minutes. In the afternoon, you may see rainbows in the spray. Starts from the parking area along Southside Drive.

Lower Yosemite Fall: 1 mile round trip, 20 minutes. Use the shuttle bus to get to the trailhead. You can see both falls from there. The trail goes to the base of the lower falls.

Mirror Lake: 2 miles round trip, 1 hour. Guidebooks say this is a fairly flat, two-mile trail leads to a calm lake just below Half Dome. Some may also mention that for much of the year this "lake" is really a meadow. No one will tell you that the trail is littered with horse-poop. If you want to go, the best way to get to the trailhead is to take the Valley Shuttle bus to the Mirror Lake Trail stop.

Vernal Fall Footbridge: 1.4 miles round trip, 1 to 2 hours. This first section of the more difficult Mist Trail gains 400 feet in elevation. The easiest way to get to the trialhead is by the shuttle bus.

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