High Sierra Camps
Open most years from June or July to September, they are staffed camps with tent cabins and food service facilities.
Ranger and naturalist Carl Parcher Russell hiked through the region and selected locations for five more camps.
I personally feel that a High Sierra Camp near the north rim of the Yosemite Valley would be a logical link in the chain.
After several ownership changes, MCA, Inc. took control of YP&CC in 1973, operating the concession until the NPS awarded a new contract to Delaware North Company in 1993.
You can carry a day pack and spend each night at one of the High Sierra camps, complete with bedding and meals".
"[11] The complete loop, which offers a "maximum in scenic beauty",[12] has a hiking length, without side trips, estimated at 51.0 miles (82.1 km).
It is the backcountry camp closest to a road, and is accessible by an uphill hike of 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the parking area.
However, the camp was relocated in 1927 a small distance upriver, because the original site had a mosquito problem early in the season.
It was first established in 1924 at a site on Booth Lake 300 feet lower, was moved in the early 1930s, and then again in 1940 to its "glorious perch" on Fletcher Creek.
An alternate route, which crosses Vogelsang Pass at 10,480 feet (3,190 m)[13] and then takes the Lewis Creek Trail to Merced Lake, is 8.4 miles (13.5 km).
It reopened as a boys' sports camp in 1922, featuring tennis, basketball, baseball, boating, fishing, hiking and swimming.
The Vogelsang High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 7.6 miles (12.2 km) north by the Fletcher Creek trail, or a hiking distance of 8.4 miles (13.5 km) north by the Fletcher Creek trail and then over Vogelsang Pass.
Sunrise High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 10.0 miles (16.1 km) northwest.
The Merced Lake High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 10.0 miles (16.1 km) southeast, and the May Lake High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 8.3 miles (13.4 km) northwest.
The Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 7.6 miles north, and the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp is located a hiking distance of 7.2 miles south by the Rafferty Creek trail.
However, the resort prospered due to increased traffic to the High Sierra, even though White Wolf was no longer on the main road.
