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
Dean O
VerifiedSeptember 11, 2024 • Stayed at: 201-Double, Loop: 2
Showed up for our double campsite and someone else was there. We were offered a single and had no choice but to take it. No refund so far on the extra cost of the double site.
Dean O
VerifiedSeptember 11, 2024 • Stayed at: 201-Double, Loop: 2
Showed up for our double campsite and someone else was there. We were offered a single and had no choice but to take it. No refund so far on the extra cost of the double site.
Jeffrey G
VerifiedSeptember 9, 2024 • Stayed at: 413, Loop: 4
Really convenient to Yosemite Valley. Campsites have been recently graded and renovated. Restrooms / disposal sinks are well situated.
If you arrive very late to check-in, they'll leave your name and campsite on a whiteboard at the campground gate: Just stop there, sign in at the clipboard, and go on to find your site. (They ask that you check back with someone the following day during operating hours if you're staying multiple nights.)
Recommend getting up and out early, so that you can give yourself enough time to get down to where you want to be in the Valley and find parking. Degnan's Kitchen opens at 7a for coffee and breakfast. It's a short walk from the Village Store, which opens at 8a for groceries and merch. The store is housed in the same building as the Welcome Center, which opens at 9a. There are helpful display boards that give you a sense of the different options for seeing the Valley, depending on how much time you have and the level of difficulty you're prepared for.
Shuttles travel counterclockwise and make all stops in numerical order. Stops near the Welcome Center are #1 and #2, and you may find it desirable to make the short walk across the loop and pick up the shuttle at #12 if you're heading for Vernal Falls or other sites in that direction. Although shuttle frequency is estimated at ~10 mins, there are two lines and they seem to arrive more frequently than that.
Derek D
VerifiedSeptember 9, 2024 • Stayed at: 508, Loop: 5
Bad site. Was told I had enough room for a 24’ trailer. I have a 5’x10’ trailer. I couldn’t open my roof top tent. I had no camping space. The site was, essentially, a joke
Jeffrey G
VerifiedSeptember 9, 2024 • Stayed at: 413, Loop: 4
Really convenient to Yosemite Valley. Campsites have been recently graded and renovated. Restrooms / disposal sinks are well situated.
If you arrive very late to check-in, they'll leave your name and campsite on a whiteboard at the campground gate: Just stop there, sign in at the clipboard, and go on to find your site. (They ask that you check back with someone the following day during operating hours if you're staying multiple nights.)
Recommend getting up and out early, so that you can give yourself enough time to get down to where you want to be in the Valley and find parking. Degnan's Kitchen opens at 7a for coffee and breakfast. It's a short walk from the Village Store, which opens at 8a for groceries and merch. The store is housed in the same building as the Welcome Center, which opens at 9a. There are helpful display boards that give you a sense of the different options for seeing the Valley, depending on how much time you have and the level of difficulty you're prepared for.
Shuttles travel counterclockwise and make all stops in numerical order. Stops near the Welcome Center are #1 and #2, and you may find it desirable to make the short walk across the loop and pick up the shuttle at #12 if you're heading for Vernal Falls or other sites in that direction. Although shuttle frequency is estimated at ~10 mins, there are two lines and they seem to arrive more frequently than that.
Derek D
VerifiedSeptember 9, 2024 • Stayed at: 508, Loop: 5
Bad site. Was told I had enough room for a 24’ trailer. I have a 5’x10’ trailer. I couldn’t open my roof top tent. I had no camping space. The site was, essentially, a joke
Brian Y
VerifiedSeptember 8, 2024 • Stayed at: 505, Loop: 5
Great location outside of the valley. Newly renovated.
Brian Y
VerifiedSeptember 8, 2024 • Stayed at: 505, Loop: 5
Great location outside of the valley. Newly renovated.
Patrick D
VerifiedSeptember 7, 2024 • Stayed at: 435, Loop: 4
Crane Flat has been upgraded with better roads and driveways but the sites are still quite close to each other. Some sites are configured such that a trailer will not work. Recent removal of trees and undergrowth leaves open sight lines to other campers, many of whom seem to stay only for one night. The restrooms remain old and tired with no observed improvements.
Camp hosts and NPS employees are very helpful. We checked out after one day of a five day reservation and moved to Bridal Veil Creek campground.
Milan B
VerifiedSeptember 7, 2024 • Stayed at: 208, Loop: 2
Excellent Campground, Enjoyed every bit of stay.
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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