North Pines Campground

Had an incredible time, the waterfalls were raging after a record winter snowfall. Love every visit to this great place! Looking forward to my next visit!

Great location, nice access to the river. Close, but not too close, to water and bathrooms. A little rocky so there’s just a few spots to put up the tent. Great hammock trees.

It was so amazing to see the river and falls so full of water. The campground was not full, the restrooms were clean. It was apsolutely a perfect Yosemite Valley experience. The only problem is that we were not able to stay longer.

The backpackers campground was closed from the North Pines Campground entrance because of Tenaya Creek footbridge was closed due to flooding. This meant my group and I had to walk all the way around on a detour. What should have been a 7 minute walk became a 30 minute hike. This isn’t fun when you’re carrying a 40 lbs bag to settle for the night. Due to other circumstances on our backpacker trip this is the biggest reason for not returning back to the valley for the last night. I didn’t want to take that hike again to the campground.

Really nice camp hosts and a lot less busy than other campgrounds nearby! I was really happy with my choice of site 529 which was close enough to the river, with a nice view of it (i.e., no neighbors across from us) and without much risk of being flooded. A bunch of sites flooded during our stay here, like site 520, where the water crept up until the fire ring was surrounded. Surprisingly not that many mosquitoes despite proximity to water. Pretty sure we had a bear visit in the night, but no problem chasing it off with some loud noise.

I was in campsite 502.
Such a beautiful site next to the Tenaya Creek and Merced river. When I left to get dinner and came back our campsite was starting to flood. It was a site to see.

Super

Great! Rangers were very helpful and friendly. Grateful that out space was not flooded

Always love North Pines and our experience was fantastic as usual. Thank you for opening up the campsites you could. We were lucky. Unfortunately, the absence of oversight by Park Rangers during the night causes some problems. One night we were awakened at 2:00 a.m. by people arriving and setting up camp next to us and then starting a fire and talking and drinking until 5:00 a.m. They left the next morning and we’re pretty sure they didn’t even have a reservation.

Great campground. This specific site does not have trees near it for hammocks so we used trees at other sites