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2026 Season availability
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Pet friendly
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- Pet friendly
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Reviews (749)
What Guests Are Saying
North Pines Campground in Yosemite offers a beautiful setting with convenient access to the Merced River and well-maintained facilities. Campers appreciate the friendly and helpful staff, as well as the proximity to hiking trails and shuttle services. While sites can be close together and may lack privacy, many visitors find the overall experience rewarding and worth the trade-offs, highlighting the campground as a great option for families and friends.
What Guests Are Saying
North Pines Campground in Yosemite offers a beautiful setting with convenient access to the Merced River and well-maintained facilities. Campers appreciate the friendly and helpful staff, as well as the proximity to hiking trails and shuttle services. While sites can be close together and may lack privacy, many visitors find the overall experience rewarding and worth the trade-offs, highlighting the campground as a great option for families and friends.
Review Summary
Glenn P
VerifiedSeptember 24, 2026 • Stayed at: 214, Loop: North Pines
Great location - both the campground and the spot. Close to restroom and easy exit in vehicle. The nearby river is a scenic hike just off the campground. Camp hosts were friendly and informative. Cons are the dense number of campers who wish to have campfires (with poor wood an technique). Maintenance of restrooms was lacking.
Marcos Yukishigue K
VerifiedSeptember 25, 2026 • Stayed at: 526, Loop: North Pines
No infrastructure like showers inside the campground
Noel M
VerifiedSeptember 25, 2026 • Stayed at: 316, Loop: North Pines
Very disappointing to see so many unoccupied campsites in this valuable resource due to no- show reservations - please work to allow use these campsites. For example a no-show, eg fails to cancel and free the site - cannot make new reservations within the calendar year.
Melissa D
VerifiedSeptember 25, 2026 • Stayed at: 506, Loop: North Pines
Wasn’t ready to leave the Yosemite Valley, so checked for any cancellations that same morning. Someone had cancelled, last minutes leaving site 506 open for one night. I snagged it so fast!
I would easily argue it’s the most desirable site. You face the river/falls on one side and half dome on the other.
Volunteers who checked us in were very friend. The campground itself was clean and orderly. Will definitely be back.
Rodney G
September 26, 2026
The campground itself is nice, once you are able to find it. Yosemite should place more signage directing backpackers to the campground, beginning with bus stop 18. And the camp host and ranger could be a little less obtrusive when they are going around checking for proof of payment, which in my experience they did around 10 pm which is the time many people have fallen asleep or are about to. Hearing someone poking around your tent with a flashlight is a bit off putting. Otherwise, the sites are nice, plenty of bathrooms (pit toilets), and it's fairly close to the shuttle once you know the path.
Patricia H
VerifiedSeptember 27, 2026 • Stayed at: 527, Loop: North Pines
Our favorite campground! The site was large enough for our big tent with plenty of shade. Gorgeous views
Leona A
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2026 • Stayed at: 207, Loop: North Pines
Had a great view of El Capitan and watched someone rock climb it! Close to trails, a beautiful river, Curry Village and shuttle stops. Highly recommend!
Darryl C
VerifiedSeptember 29, 2026 • Stayed at: 307, Loop: North Pines
Yosemite is incredible. Too much to see and do that you need a week or more to do it all. We loved our time out here. With that said, the campground spaces are a little tight and there was also lots of overgrown brush around the campsite. Not all bad though. The general campground is clean and well maintained and the bathrooms were generally very clean throughout our stay which was great! Also the rangers here were very kind and helpful.
Chris B
VerifiedOctober 1, 2026 • Stayed at: 515, Loop: North Pines
September is lovely; leaves changing color and still ideal weather. North Pines is always a great spot to camp and we all had a great time.
My only "really??" moment was the aggro rangers who tagged us for leaving an uncut watermelon on our table for a few hours at lunch. They were still good dudes though. Can't wait to come back (and won't leave any mid-day watermelons out) :)
Jewel D
VerifiedOctober 2, 2026 • Stayed at: 129, Loop: North Pines
Great views, clean bathrooms
Location & Directions for North Pines Campground
9024 Southside Drive, Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 United States
Elevation: 1,215 ft
Getting There
Take Highway 41 north from Fresno, Highway 140 east from Merced, or Highway 120 east from Manteca into Yosemite National Park. Follow signs to Yosemite Valley and the campgrounds.
Highway access
North Pines Campground is accessible via Highway 41 to the south, Highway 140 to the west, and Highway 120 to the southwest, all leading into Yosemite National Park.
Policies & Rules
General
- You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
- If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 372-8502; your reservation will be cancelled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
- You must check-in at the campground kiosk upon arrival. After-hours arrivals must sign-in and return to the kiosk to complete check-in the following morning or your reservation may be cancelled.
- Bears and other wildlife live here! Food and toiletries must be properly stored 24 hours/day.Food storage lockers are provided in all campsites and measure 43 inches wide, 28 inches high and 35 inches deep.Absolutely no food stored in vehicles.Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters.
- There are no electric, water or sewer hook-ups available at individual campsites, although a free dump station and drinking water are located nearby at Upper Pines.
- Road conditions can change at any time; before arrival, please call (209) 372-0200 for road and weather conditions inside Yosemite, and 1-800-427-ROAD for conditions outside the park.
- For additional park information, call (209) 372-0200 or visit www.nps.gov/yose
- 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 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
- Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
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Last updated: October 20, 2026
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