Tioga Pass

Look at the Tioga Pass Road

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The Tioga Pass is a 3031 m high mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada in California. The California State Route 120 passes over him. At the same time the Tioga Pass is the eastern access point in the Yosemite National Park. He is the highest highway pass in California and the Sierra Nevada. Mount Dana is located east of Tioga Pass. There are a number of hiking trails in the back country of Yosemite National Park that start from here. A trail leads to West Northwest at the Gaylor Lakes. The summit of Mount Dana is also easy to reach from here. The Dana Meadows located immediately south of the pass along the highway. The name of Tioga Pass gave him the same name in New York mining company Tioga Mines. The term Tioga came from the Iroquois and Mohawk Indians and means something like: where it bifurcates.

The pass road has a gentle slope from the west, while a steep descent leads east of the passport of Lee Vining at Mono Lake. The descent to U.S. Highway 395 is about 900 meters. The Tioga Road west of the pass inside the park and they are in the Yosemite Valley because of the attractiveness of the traversed landscape as a National Scenic Byway reported continuing Big Oak Flat Road down.

The pass is closed in winter because of high snow. He blocks most from October to November and will be opened Tioga Pass back in May / June.

The Tioga Pass is the shortest route from Bishop or Mammoth Lakes to Fresno, Merced and Stockton. There are four more mountain passes north of Tioga between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe. The next pass over the Sierra Nevada in the south of Sherman Pass is about 300 km away in southern Tulare County. Most often, the pass is open from end of May to early October.