Heheh, it's looking like most of May is out.


Um, which leads me to wonder ... how are the peeps going on the cruise going to manage camping in the same time period? Is that even possible, or should we really consider one to be exclusive of the other.

I mean, taking the entire month of May out of consideration for the sake of people who would not be able to come camping anyway .... well, it just seems potentially wasteful ... especially considering how hard Yosemite ressies are to come by.


So, for those of you cruising ... could you also get time off in late April, the first week of May, or early June for camping? Or is that a pipe dream?

I'm self-employed, so I make my own schedule. And, I approve my vacation request for camping. ;)

Reservations for April have been available for the last 3 weeks and a quick look suggests that the valley floor campgrounds are already pretty full (the five random sites I just checked only had a few days available and not any consecutive ones).

If I go with my usual group it does look like we'll be there around Memorial Day (May 23-28 is what they're reserving). So if April is full and May is out, if you want to reserve when the next dates open you'll only have the June 1-15 available.

Totally interested but it will depend on the dates locked down. My oldest friend is getting hitched, so I may be camping out in Wisconsin sometime in May. (Camping on the grounds is offered as an alternative to staying in nearby B&Bs.)

Found one major problem with Disneyphile's suggestion: reservations at Crane are non site-specific, meaning we can't guarantee getting the spaces she saw.

I'm going to suggest the weekend of either April 18th or 25th. It looks like we may be able to get sites then at one of the "Pines" sites.

Actually, the 18th has LOTS of availability - more so that the 25th.

But is what Alex says true, i.e., that on January 15, the dates coming open are early June?

I have no problem with early June, btw. But if Alex is right, then April is either gone already, or certainly will be by the time we get our act together.

We have to go for dates that will first and only first become available on the morning we try, with hundreds of other people, to get through to 3 operators in the 3-minute window before all campsites are taken.

It's rough.

Like I said above, there are LOTS of sites available for the weekend of the 18th. Go look at the resie site.

Are the sites that DP recommended available?

The weekend of the 18th is our wedding anniversary, but it is the 11th anniversary, so not that big of a deal. I mean, ANY anniversary is a big deal of course, but as anniversaries go, the 11th isn't one of the major ones.

The 25th is also Coachella weekend