Description:

Danielle gets tips and recommendations for visiting Yosemite National Park in every season from Adonia Ripple from Yosemite Conservancy, the park’s official nonprofit partner and Lisa Cesaro from Yosemite Hospitality, the park’s concessionaire. A winter stay at the Glacier Point Ski hut and a summer backpacking trip around the High Sierra Camps are on the bucket list.

Discussed in this episode:

3:25 - Adonia RIpple of Yosemite Conservancy describes her background

5:07 - About Yosemite Conservancy

9:21 - Description of Yosemite National Park and the different regions of the park

12:13 - Hetch Hetchy

12:55 - Tom Bopp interview and Ken Burns Interview

13:29 - How long to visit and how to avoid crowds

16:51 - Spring itinerary

23:09 - Summer itinerary

28:05 - Fall itinerary

32:53 - Winter itinerary

35:03 - Yosemite Conservancy Programs

43:06 - Yosemite Conservancy Bookstores

45:22 - Climbing Cathedral Peak and the wisdom of this timeless environment

47:38 - Lisa Cesaro talks about Yosemite Hospitality

48:13 - Yosemite Hospitality accommodations

51:22 - High Sierra Camps

55:12 - Yosemite Hospitality Activities

1:00:15 - Yosemite in winter

1:03:52 - Glacier Point Ski Hut

1:05:12 - Lisa shares how special it is to live in Yosemite year-round

For complete show notes, visit everybodysnationalparks.com.

If this is your first time tuning in, go back and listen to the other episodes in this Yosemite series including our trip report, a conversation with park naturalist Eric Westerlund, musician and historian Tom Bob sings for us while recounting the 1903 camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, and a wonderful conversation about Antal Adams' legacy. Episode 19.5 features park ranger Shelton Johnson and his alter ego Sergeant Elizy Bowman, a Buffalo Soldier with the ninth cavalry in Yosemite.

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