About Crane Flat Campground
Number of accommodations: 148
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (968)
What Guests Are Saying
Crane Flat Campground offers a quiet and peaceful setting with well-maintained sites and friendly staff, making it a great base for exploring Yosemite National Park. Many guests appreciated the campground's remote location, clean facilities, and the opportunity to enjoy nature, with some even spotting deer nearby. While some noted issues with site size and air quality due to campfires, overall experiences were positive, highlighting the beauty and tranquility of the area.
What Guests Are Saying
Crane Flat Campground offers a quiet and peaceful setting with well-maintained sites and friendly staff, making it a great base for exploring Yosemite National Park. Many guests appreciated the campground's remote location, clean facilities, and the opportunity to enjoy nature, with some even spotting deer nearby. While some noted issues with site size and air quality due to campfires, overall experiences were positive, highlighting the beauty and tranquility of the area.
Review Summary
Dennis N
VerifiedOctober 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 507, Loop: 5
Campsites are more spaced out than the ones in the valley. Quiet and peaceful.
Carsten P
VerifiedOctober 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 202, Loop: 2
- Very nice place
- Simple rest rooms withuit electricity
Judson C
VerifiedOctober 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 523, Loop: 5
From a very poorly designed campsite to a dicitorial monster volunteer.
The very worse part of the experience was your FULLY RESERVED campground was 50% empty on my first mornong and 25% empty on the second morning - the same condition with Yellowstone 20 years ago. The incompetetant, buffoon management that looks the other way is allowing selfish, greedy monsters to deny THOUSANDS of the opportunity to visit these parks. I WAITED FOR THIRTY YEARS. SHAME ON YOU.
Dennis N
VerifiedOctober 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 507, Loop: 5
Campsites are more spaced out than the ones in the valley. Quiet and peaceful.
Catherine S
VerifiedOctober 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 436, Loop: 4
This is a good location if you want to visit the valley (35 mins away) and sites are full in the valley. It's much more tent friendly than camper friendly. I wish we had reserved a double site for our 21 ft pull behind trailer. I figured those were typically for 2 RVs who want to camp side by side. Our driveway was long enough for our pickup & trailer, but all the posts around the edges of the sites make is nearly impossible to maneuver. Also the immediate side of the narrow asphalt driveway for our site was steep gravel, making it treacherous to step out of our camper. We had to set up our outdoor rugs several yards away from the camper, where we could find a flat area.
Tori A
VerifiedOctober 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 103, Loop: 1
Gorgeous campground and lots of room in our site! Wish we could have stayed longer.
Catherine S
VerifiedOctober 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 436, Loop: 4
This is a good location if you want to visit the valley (35 mins away) and sites are full in the valley. It's much more tent friendly than camper friendly. I wish we had reserved a double site for our 21 ft pull behind trailer. I figured those were typically for 2 RVs who want to camp side by side. Our driveway was long enough for our pickup & trailer, but all the posts around the edges of the sites make is nearly impossible to maneuver. Also the immediate side of the narrow asphalt driveway for our site was steep gravel, making it treacherous to step out of our camper. We had to set up our outdoor rugs several yards away from the camper, where we could find a flat area.
Tori A
VerifiedOctober 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 103, Loop: 1
Gorgeous campground and lots of room in our site! Wish we could have stayed longer.
Deb V
VerifiedOctober 2, 2025 • Stayed at: 310, Loop: 3
Nice clean campground, easy to access and park camper van. Bathrooms were clean with close access
Dennis L
VerifiedOctober 2, 2025 • Stayed at: 103, Loop: 1
Really good campground for people with cars and RVs. Situated next to a gas station that open for 24 hrs (Not the store!) The campground is nice and cozy. You get a wooden table, fire pit, and a area flatten for a tent. Restroom was clean, and open during the night. Sometimes the park rangers will setup an event such as stargazing at night around Tuolumne Grove Trailhead. I couldn't attend cause I had to be up early the day after.
Location Crane Flat Campground
Address:
Po Box 577
Yosemite National Park, CA, 95389
United States
Take Highway 41 north from Fresno, Highway 140 east from Merced, or Highway 120 east from Manteca into Yosemite National Park. Crane Flat Campground is located 8 miles from the Big Oak Flat Entrance Station (Hwy 120 from the west), and is 17 miles (30 minutes) northwest of Yosemite Valley.
Crane Flat Campground is accessible via Highway 120, which is 8 miles from the Big Oak Flat Entrance Station to Yosemite National Park.
Latitude & Longitude: 37.7639 / -119.844
Elevation: 1783 feet
Policies & Rules
General
- You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment. The campground has had a complete overhaul and every site has changed.
- If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 379-2123; your reservation will be cancelled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
- Bring proof of your reservation (screen shot or paper version). There is no internet access, cell service or public phone at Crane Flat.You must sign in at the entrance of the campground or you will be considered a no show and your reservation cancelled.Make your site look occupied--leave a chair or other equipment so we know you've arrived.
- Bears and wildlife live here! Food, scented items and toiletries must be stored 24 hours/day. Absolutely NO food stored in vehicles!Food lockers are provided in all campsites and measure 35 inches deep x 43 inches wide x 28 inches high.Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters or in your locker. Do NOT hang garbage bags in your site!
- No electric, water, or sewer hookups are available at this facility, however, a dump station is located in Yosemite Valley, as are showers.
- Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
- There is no electricity and therefore, no lights in this campground. Bring a light source!
- For additional park information, call (209)372-0200 or visit www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit
- Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
- Help Yosemite be a Zero Landfill park! Leave excess packaging at home. Use refillable water & propane bottles, food containers and travel mugs. Place all of your recyclable waste in designated recycling containers. For more information go to: https://www.nps.gov/yose/getinvolved/zlf.htm
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