Metal food lockers are available in every campsite, most trailhead parking areas, and at lodging areas with tent cabins (Curry Village, White Wolf, and Tuolumne Meadows). Lockers are also available at Little Yosemite Valley and High Sierra Camp backpacker campgrounds.

While a bear can smell food in a locker, the bear can't get into the locker if it's closed and latched properly. Be sure to keep your locker closed and latched at all times, even if you are in your campsite.

Some Upper Pines campsites have larger lockers; see below for details.

Each campsite has one locker (except those at Camp 4, where each site contains four lockers). Each Housekeeping Camp unit has one of these lockers, plus a smaller one (measuring 17 inches by 49 inches by 17 inches). Most trailheads in Yosemite have several lockers available.

Please ensure that all your ice chests and food, drinks, and toiletries will fit in this locker; all these items must be stored in a locker.

These lockers are only available in a limited number of campsites in Upper Pines campground.

New lockers in Upper Pines Campground

The following Upper Pines campsites contain these larger lockers:

First loop: 1-52
Second loop: None
Third loop: 96, 97, 100, 101, 104, 107, 115, 116, 118, 120
Fourth loop: 125-156
Fifth loop: 157-187
Sixth loop: 188-240

Curry Village

Each tent cabin at Curry Village has a locker; locker size depends on tent cabin size. If three or fewer people are staying in one tent cabin, the locker size is 20.5 inches deep by 35½ inches wide by 23 inches high (52 cm x 90 cm x 58 cm). If four or five are people staying in one tent cabin, the locker size is 20½ inches deep by 47½ inches wide by 23 inches high (52 cm x 120 cm x 58 cm). Be sure to keep your locker completely closed, even while you're in or around your tent cabin: a bear may try to get food from the locker even in your presence.

White Wolf Lodge, and Tuolumne Meadows Lodge

Food lockers are available in parking lots at these locations. These lockers measure 17 inches deep by 49 inches wide by 17 inches high (43 cm x 124 cm x 43 cm). Be sure to clip the locker shut, otherwise a bear may open the locker.

Little Yosemite Valley and High Sierra Camp backpacker campgrounds

Shared food lockers are available at each of these locations. The lockers measure 17 inches deep by 49 inches wide by 17 inches high (43 cm x 124 cm x 43 cm). Be sure to keep the locker closed and clipped: a bear may enter your campsite even in your presence.