• View of Half Dome and Washington Column in Yosemite Valley

    Yosemite

    National Park California

Tuolumne Meadows Shuttle Bus

Use the free Tuolumne Meadows shuttle bus for service in the greater Tuolumne Meadows area from June through mid September (dates vary from year to year).

The shuttle provides service between Tuolumne Meadows and Olmsted Point every half hour between 7 am and 7 pm, as follows:

  1. Tuolumne Meadows Lodge (7 am to 6 pm)
  2. Dog Lake Parking
  3. Tuolumne Meadows Wilderness Center
  4. Lembert Dome
  5. Tuolumne Meadows Campground and Store
  6. Tuolumne Meadows Visitor Center
  7. Cathedral Lakes Trailhead
  8. Pothole Dome
  9. East end of Tenaya Lake
  10. Sunrise Lakes Trailhead (west end of Tenaya Lake)
  11. May Lake Trailhead
  12. Olmsted Point (7:30 am to 6 pm)
 

The shuttle also provides service between Tuolumne Meadows Lodge and Tioga Pass (with a stop at Mono Pass), as follows:

Leaves
Tuolumne Lodge
Leaves
Mono Pass

Leaves
Tioga Pass

9:00 am 9:10 am 9:15 am
Noon 12:10 pm 12:15 pm
3:00 pm 3:10 pm 3:15 pm
5:00 pm 5:10 pm 5:15 pm


 
No free shuttle service is available between the Tuolumne Meadows area and Yosemite Valley or other areas of the park. However, DNC offers a tour bus to and from Tuolumne Meadows (one-way tickets available) and YARTS offers a Highway 120 East bus, as well.

Did You Know?

Vernal and Nevada Falls

In Yosemite Valley, dropping over 594-foot Nevada Fall and then 317-foot Vernal Fall, the Merced River creates what is known as the “Giant Staircase.” Such exemplary stair-step river morphology is characterized by a large variability in river movement and flow, from quiet pools to the dramatic drops of the waterfalls themselves.