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
Gayane M
VerifiedOctober 1, 2024 • Stayed at: 316, Loop: 3
Very well maintained. Excellent campsite.
Gayane M
VerifiedOctober 1, 2024 • Stayed at: 316, Loop: 3
Very well maintained. Excellent campsite.
Desiree D
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 516, Loop: 5
We really enjoyed this campground! It was in a great location in the park, clean and quiet. The staff was friendly and it is convenient having a gas station/general store near by. Even though, the general store closes at 5PM and was frequently out of things, also the air pump was broken there. However, the campsite was great! Sites are pretty close to each other and not the most spacious but for two people, it was great. We plan to return one day.
DAVID E
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 531, Loop: 5
Crane Flat is a very clean Yosemite campground near the NW entrance (hwy 120). It had been closed for rejuvenation and it looks great. Like the other campgrounds in Yosemite, the sites are close together. Many of the back in sites did not look very level (front to back). The restrooms were clean with running water and flush toilets. Crane Flat is the closest campground to the valley that is not in the valley. Would definitely stay here again.
Paul T
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 407, Loop: 4
The reservation process was very helpful and the check in process was also very easy.
Desiree D
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 516, Loop: 5
We really enjoyed this campground! It was in a great location in the park, clean and quiet. The staff was friendly and it is convenient having a gas station/general store near by. Even though, the general store closes at 5PM and was frequently out of things, also the air pump was broken there. However, the campsite was great! Sites are pretty close to each other and not the most spacious but for two people, it was great. We plan to return one day.
DAVID E
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 531, Loop: 5
Crane Flat is a very clean Yosemite campground near the NW entrance (hwy 120). It had been closed for rejuvenation and it looks great. Like the other campgrounds in Yosemite, the sites are close together. Many of the back in sites did not look very level (front to back). The restrooms were clean with running water and flush toilets. Crane Flat is the closest campground to the valley that is not in the valley. Would definitely stay here again.
Paul T
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2024 • Stayed at: 407, Loop: 4
The reservation process was very helpful and the check in process was also very easy.
Rita H
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2024 • Stayed at: 502, Loop: 5
It is great that the camp has been rebuilt. It is not so great that many of the campsites are difficult to acess. Be sure that you read that description of the campsites carefully. there are many stairs to sites, poor parking conditions in others. Also, it will be years before any of the local flora is restored. It is a stripped campground, dirt, rocks and tress. No wildlife, no birds, grass nothing. This is written as of opening for first time 2024, so hopefully in the next few years the campground will resemble a forest.
Rita H
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2024 • Stayed at: 502, Loop: 5
It is great that the camp has been rebuilt. It is not so great that many of the campsites are difficult to acess. Be sure that you read that description of the campsites carefully. there are many stairs to sites, poor parking conditions in others. Also, it will be years before any of the local flora is restored. It is a stripped campground, dirt, rocks and tress. No wildlife, no birds, grass nothing. This is written as of opening for first time 2024, so hopefully in the next few years the campground will resemble a forest.
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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