The 5 Best High-Altitude Hiking Trails in the Eastern Sierra, From an Accessible 13,000-Foot Summit to a Historic Cattle Route
This guide is a deliberate step up from my Mammoth Lakes trails guide; most of these hikes reach or approach…
The 5 Best Hiking Trails Near Mammoth Lakes, From a Town-Adjacent Alpine Lake to a Waterfall with Its Own Rainbow
This is the flagship guide in a brand-new county for this series, and Hiking Trails Near Mammoth Lakes is the…
Hiking Trails in Mono County, California
Hiking Trails in Mono County is the Eastern Sierra at its most dramatic: a 9,000-ft resort town, volcanic lakes, an…
Best Hiking Trails in Fresno County, California
No California county holds more designated wilderness than Fresno County. It contains a genuine slice of Kings Canyon National Park,…
5 Best Hiking Trails for Fall Foliage in Tuolumne County, From High-Country Aspens to Riverside Cottonwoods
This closes out our five-guide Tuolumne County series with the one organized around a calendar rather than a location, fall…
5 Best Hiking Trails in the Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolumne County
This is the one guide in this county series that has nothing to do with Yosemite National Park at all,…
5 Best Waterfall Hikes in Tuolumne County, From a 1,400-Foot Cascade to a Free Roadside Swimming Hole
Waterfall Hiking Trail in Tuolumne County comes from two genuinely different water sources: reservoir-fed cascades at Hetch Hetchy, covered from…
5 Best Hiking Trails Near Yosemite’s Big Oak Flat Entrance, Tuolumne County
A geography note before anything else: the working title for this guide referred to this as Yosemite’s “southern entrance.” That’s…
The 5 Best Hiking Trails in the Desolation Wilderness, From a Granite Basin to the Tallest Peak in the Range
If the Lake Tahoe South Shore trails are the easy, no-permit side of El Dorado County hiking, this is the…
5 Best Hiking Trails in Yosemite’s Tuolumne Meadows, From Twin Alpine Lakes to a Historic Silver Mine
Hiking Trails in Tuolumne Meadows is the Yosemite most visitors never see, no valley floor crowds, no Half Dome lottery,…
