Can You Drive up to 9,945 Feet? Yosemite’s Famed High Country Tioga Road Just Reopened

The road closes every winter due to snow and it is finally ready to reopen.

The Tioga Road, a famed 46-mile route through Yosemite National Park's scenic high country, opened Monday for the summer season after crews who had been working with plows and explosives since mid-April cleared the snow. Snow and ice still remain in some parts of Yosemite's high country, visible from the road. Yosemite National Park/TNS

By Paul Rogers From The Mercury News

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Tioga Road, the famed route through Yosemite National Park’s scenic high country and the highest-elevation road in California’s state highway system, has re-opened to vehicles.