Backpacking · 4 days
Yosemite Half Dome Backpacking Trip: Mono Meadows
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Small group, up to 8
$1,895from / person
Destination
California
The Golden State of California has a little bit of everything: from the pounding surf of the Pacific to the towering peaks of the Sierra Nevada and everything in between. Our adventure tours of California focus on the national parks in the Sierras, as well as California’s classic costal scenery. With Southwest Adventure Tours, you’ll be assured that you’ll see the adventure side of California and not the normal places that everyone else goes.
Our tour offerings of California will show you a little bit of everything. You’ll see the sights in San Francisco, the enchanting redwoods of Sequoia and Kings National Parks, the beautiful coastline near Big Sir and Monterey along world renowned Pacific Coast Highway, and of course, California’s centerpiece, Yosemite Valley.
California in photographs
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Backpacking · 4 days
Yosemite Half Dome Backpacking Trip: Happy Isles
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Small group, up to 8
$1,895from / person
Backpacking · 5 days
Yosemite Tuolumne River Guided Backpacking Trip
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Small group, up to 8
$2,095from / person
Backpacking · 6 days
Yosemite Half Dome Backpacking Trip: Cathedral Lakes
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Small group, up to 8
$2,295from / person
Backpacking · 4 days
Yosemite Ten Lakes Backpacking Trip
- Yosemite National Park, California
- Small group, up to 8
$2,699from / person
Small group · 8 days
Yosemite, Sequoia, & California Coast
San Francisco → Yosemite National Park
- Yosemite National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, California
- Small group, 2–14
$5,199from / person
Departing from
Planning a trip to California
California has more national parks than any other state — nine of them — and they cover a range nothing else does: Yosemite and the giant sequoias in the Sierra, Death Valley below sea level in the Mojave, Joshua Tree in the southern desert, and the redwood coast in the far north.
Distance is the constraint everyone underestimates. Yosemite is about four hours from San Francisco, Sequoia and Kings Canyon another two beyond it, and the redwoods are a day’s drive north of the city in the other direction.
Season splits the state in half. The Sierra high country is closed by snow for around half the year — Tioga Road and Glacier Point Road both — while the desert parks are at their best in exactly those months and brutal in July.
The waterfall season in the Sierra is short and early: fed by snowmelt, at their strongest in May and June, and much reduced by late summer.