Address: Yosemite Concession Services Corporation, Yosemite National Park, California 95389. The hotel is twenty-seven miles from Yosemite Valley on California 41, seven miles from the park's South Entrance and Mariposa Grove of the Giant Sequoias.
Telephone: 209-252-4848.
Book one year ahead or be flexible about dates.
Families who plan ahead can escape Yosemite Valley's summer crowds by visiting the park's less-visited Wawona section. This southern section of the park is loaded with historic architecture and great swimming spots along the Merced River. Families with small children love Wawona for the fun Mariposa Grove tram ride through some of the world's oldest and tallest trees and for the Pioneer Yosemite History Center, where costumed docents reenact nineteenth-century life. Anchoring Wawona is the gracious Wawona Hotel one of California s oldest mountain resort hotels A beautifully restored Victorian white clapboard the hotel is reminiscent of early Adirondack resorts with wide covered porches green wooden rockers, and expansive lawns.
Season: Easter week through Thanksgiving. Re-opens mid-December through January. During January, February, and March, open Thursday through Sunday only
Accommodations: The 104 rooms are small and simple, but comfortable. Most rooms sleep four with one double bed and two twin beds. Those with private bathrooms have clawfoot tubs with showers. Rooms open onto wide, covered porches. In addition, there is a separate building ideal for family reunions where individual guest rooms share a common area.
Special Features: Swimming pool, daily housekeeping service, tennis courts nearby snow skiing golf (nine hole course) horseback riding and a variety of hiking trails lead from the hotel. The main lodge lobby has board games and a piano player in the evening. Mealtime is family-oriented at the hotel's dining room, and a Western lawn barbecue is held on summer Saturdays No televisions or telephones in rooms
Spots, activities and attractions: A short walk leads to river swimming holes and the engaging Pioneer History Center with nineteenth-century crafts and stagecoach rides. About 200 yards upstream from the Center's covered bridge are small swimming and wading pools with big, flat rocks for sunbathing. Winter is especially enchanting; the area surrounding the hotel is perfect for cross-country skiing and snowshoe walks. Less than an hour away is downhill skiing at Badger Pass. Mariposa Grove of the Giant Sequoias is a short drive from the hotel.
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