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Destinations / Yosemite
Tuolumne Meadows Campground
High-country camping at 8,600 ft along Tioga Road. Summer only.
Getting a site here
- Open (2026, tentative)
- Jul 1 – Sep 27
- Elevation
- 8,600 ft
- Sites
- 289
- Fee
- $36/night
- Water
- Tap
- RV / trailer max
- 35 ft / 24 ft
- Reservations
- Half 2 months ahead on the 15th, half 2 weeks ahead
From the National Park Service's campground table, checked 2026-09-23. Group and horse sites available. The nearby dump station is closed from Sep 8, 2026.
When does your date go on sale at Tuolumne Meadows? The Yosemite release calendar →
Popular weekends here book up soon after they open on Recreation.gov. After that, the realistic path is cancellations.
Cancellations we've caught here
No booked site here has come back up in the last 30 days.
From our own checks of every site here. A site that opens and is rebooked between two checks isn't counted, so these are floors, and each time is a bound. Cancellations at every campground we log →
Tuolumne Meadows Campground cancellation policy
Cancel more than 48 hours before your arrival date and you lose only the $10 fee; inside 48 hours you also lose the first night. The campground's own rule, as Recreation.gov publishes it:
Cancellation of individual or equestrian site reservations will be charged a $10 service fee. If the cancellation is within 48 hours of the arrival date, the first night's fee will also be charged. Cancellation of a group site reservation will incur a $10.00 service fee plus the first night’s use fee when the reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. Cancellations for a single night’s use will not be assessed a service fee. No-shows for any type of reservation will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.
From Tuolumne Meadows's Recreation.gov page, read Sep 30, 2026. How cancellations work, and how far ahead the cancelled nights are →
Set an alert for your dates and we check every site in Tuolumne Meadows every 30 seconds. When one opens, you get an email with a direct link to the site and night — you book it yourself, in your own Recreation.gov account.
Read before you book
- How Recreation.gov cancellations actually work (and when sold-out sites open up) — Sold out on Recreation.gov rarely means sold out for good. The fee rules decide when people cancel, and knowing them tells you when to look.