Wawona Campground

Only 35 mins from valley, close to store, gas station, and river. Would come and camp again. Bathrooms clean.

Staff was awesome, the campground, it’s beautiful, right on the Merced. Np partyers, no non-sense, in the middle of YNP. Even have River Otters toaming the area.

First camping trip, this was a great campsite. Tons of room, spaced out from other sites, bathroom close by without being a nuisance at all since it’s down the hill. Couldn’t ask for more. Images look super rocky on this site specifically but not an issue at all. Will be back for sure.

Great place! I really liked that it was available as First Come First Served, while we were there. I wish there would be some places available FCFS year round, not everyone is able to plan get aways months in advance.

We loved hear the water from our campsite!

Nice location unfortunately close camping and everyone having campfires in such close proximity causes us to stay indoors to avoid the smoke. Health Such camps with large fire pits some left unattended still smoking limits the enjoyment.

All good

Excellent campground. I booked a group site and was very happy with the experience. The bathroom was cleaned. The ranger was very helpful and friendly. I would stay here again.

We had a very upsetting experience during our stay. At approximately 7:30am, a park ranger banged loudly on our van and announced “Police,” which was extremely alarming. We were startled awake and I was genuinely frightened. When I asked if I could get dressed before exiting, the ranger was impatient and accusatory.
We had paid for our campsite, but the ticket was not visible because the clip on the post was broken. Rather than calmly verifying the situation first, we were immediately treated as if we had intentionally not paid.
We understand rangers have a job to do, but professionalism and basic courtesy go a long way. A more respectful approach would have made this situation very different.

We stayed at site 054 C on 8/19 during a cross country roadtrip. For the purposes of our trip (coming down from the Tahoe area and visiting the valley the next day) I wish that we would have stayed up in Tolumne instead of having to backtrack into the valley the next day, but that was my own planning fault. This was a fine campground. Clean, quiet, and for such a popular campground this site felt private enough, which is rare when the bathrooms are so close by. There’s a large lovely cedar on the site which was a nice shady spot to pitch our tent under.