2008 Camp Swank

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, the news just keeps getting crappier the more research I do.

Crane Flat Campground is really far from Yosemite Valley. It's just past the Tioga Road (which is the road that actually crosses the Sierra's, and leads to the lovely Tuolmne Meadow). I don't want to camp there. Bah.

White Wolf, the closer campground, does not take reservations.

Lower Pines and the other campgrounds in the Valley will not allow for more than 2 adjacent reserved campsites.



I hate to say it, but Yosemite is going to completely suck for Swank Camp.


But if I don't hear anything to the contrary, my plan is to reserve 4 campsites in Lower Pines, in pairs as close to each other as possible.


If you will recall last years' Swank Camp ... there was the hardscrabble no-man's-land between Upper and Lower Camps (or whatever cool nicknames we had for them). If we're lucky, the distance between our two sets of double campsites would be simiilar.


Here's a map of Lower Pines Camground. The best sites, and those that will go most quickly, are the ones on the outer edges of a loop, near the Merced River. From the looks of it, 36, 37, 38 and 39 would be the prime 4 sites.

17, 18, 19, 20 also look good, though farther apart from each other (but perhaps more individually spacious, who knows?)