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
Spencer E
VerifiedJuly 17, 2024 • Stayed at: 518, Loop: 5
Beautiful, well maintained campground. There was a well sized level pad for a tent. I recommend the campground for a Yosemite vacation.
Vaclav V
VerifiedJuly 17, 2024 • Stayed at: 115, Loop: 1
Nicely renovated, quiet and relaxed atmosphere. Beautiful surroundings.
Jonquil S
VerifiedJuly 17, 2024 • Stayed at: 421, Loop: 4
Crane flat campground was perfect! You can tell the amenities are new. The bearbox is huge! They have flushable toilets and the sites are nicely spaced out. I would highly recommend this campground! Only about 25 minutes from Yosemite valley and 30 minutes away from Teneya lake.
Spencer E
VerifiedJuly 17, 2024 • Stayed at: 518, Loop: 5
Beautiful, well maintained campground. There was a well sized level pad for a tent. I recommend the campground for a Yosemite vacation.
Jared D
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 533, Loop: 5
Obviously, the park itself is magnificent, but this campground is awful. The sites have been redone so the pictures aren’t yet dependable, and they’ve added so many that they are right on top of each other, to the point where some people were legitimately confused as to where to put their stuff. Add bathrooms that weren’t being cleaned frequently—and for this money, there’s just no reason not to add a few solar panels and a battery for lights at night, maybe even wi-fi since there’s no service—and heaps and heaps of sawdust and wood from recent tree cutting, and this campground is only worth it because of its location.
Robin S
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 519, Loop: 5
Some campsites don't have parking spaces near the camp site, so if you are sleeping in your van, you are right on the loop road.
Water is only near the toilets so you have to go up or down steps or up a long ramp to get water.
Dianna H
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 217, Loop: 2
Loud music, all night running lights from other campers make the Yosemite camping experience like having bad neighbors. Policy to keep the campground quiet, dark, and wild would enhance a wilderness adventure.
Fan G
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 216, Loop: 2
We had a great stay here. It was isolated, and it was just amazing waking up next to the meadow. Lots of trails and great sites in Yosemite.
Jared D
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 533, Loop: 5
Obviously, the park itself is magnificent, but this campground is awful. The sites have been redone so the pictures aren’t yet dependable, and they’ve added so many that they are right on top of each other, to the point where some people were legitimately confused as to where to put their stuff. Add bathrooms that weren’t being cleaned frequently—and for this money, there’s just no reason not to add a few solar panels and a battery for lights at night, maybe even wi-fi since there’s no service—and heaps and heaps of sawdust and wood from recent tree cutting, and this campground is only worth it because of its location.
Robin S
VerifiedJuly 16, 2024 • Stayed at: 519, Loop: 5
Some campsites don't have parking spaces near the camp site, so if you are sleeping in your van, you are right on the loop road.
Water is only near the toilets so you have to go up or down steps or up a long ramp to get water.
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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