Small-Group Yosemite Tour: Scenic San Francisco Day Trip

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Escape the city and embark on a small-group day trip from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park. Discover the breathtaking beauty of Yosemite Valley, including iconic landmarks like Yosemite Falls and Half Dome. With limited group sizes, you’ll have a more intimate and immersive experience in this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Duration: 15 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

San Francisco Bay - As you settle in for the journey, we’ll pass by some exceptional San Francisco sights. Catch views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and the incomparable San Francisco Skyline as we head east on the Bay Bridge. The journey to Yosemite typically takes about 4 hours.

What's Included

Entrance to Yosemite National Park included
1.5-hour narrated tour of Yosemite
Professional, knowledgeable full-time guide
Eco-friendly transport via biofueled mini-coach
Hotel pickup and drop-off (selected SF hotels)
Enjoy 3 hours of free time to explore the Valley

What's Not Included

Meals (stops will be made to purchase food)
Bike rental (available for purchase)
Guide gratuity

Additional Information

Escaping the city for a day trip to California’s stunning Yosemite National Park from San Francisco has never been easier. Traverse Central Valley, Gold Country, and the Sierra Nevada foothills on your journey to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Yosemite National Park. Immerse yourself in a 1.5-hour guided van tour around Yosemite Valley, featuring…

Location

San Francisco Bay

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Kylie

Dec 14, 2024

Yosemite - Our tour guide was awesome! Really knowledgeable he helped with working out trails for us when we had our free time highly recommend!

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Marco_b

Dec 3, 2024

Excellent experience! We... - Excellent experience! We visited Yosemite most iconic sites. This a long tour, and there are plenty of stops for going to the bathroom and buy snacks. The tour guide is really energetic, knowledgeable and caring. We had some people delayed in one stop and he went to look for them, also Yosemite sightseeing sites are really secure, clean with street signs and with restrooms, so is impossible to get lost or have some sort of accident unless your are reckless.

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Jiangxueh2024

Nov 28, 2024

Yosemite is spectacular! - Mr. Bryan is amazing! Thanks to him, we really had a blast and relieved form the all the chaos recently. Yosemite is spectacular! I hope more visiters can have this tour.

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Bertweed

Nov 8, 2024

Top guide -Brian👍 - Brian was a great guide-amusing, knowledgeable and obviously loves his job. It was a long day ( not helped by one couple who were always late, despite clear instructions from Brian-he handled them well as they were very rude to all of us!). Despite this we had a great day but I think if people are going to be over 15 mins late they should be left. Brian did a great job and the park was amazing-we would like to do the longer tour next time👍😎

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Zzzzzzmag

Nov 5, 2024

Great and Full Day - It was the most amazing way to see Yosmite in a day. The tour was worth the money and the guide was very knowledgeable and personable. Would highly recommend. Yosemite is an absolute wonder and I would love to revisit, my plan would be to maybe try and extend my visit to overnight and have a little more chance for hiking and climbing. Good size group and likeminded travelers, a few solo like me.

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Patricia_d

Oct 30, 2024

Perfect experience - Tour guide/driver Mitch was awesome. He was very informative and thorough. It was so exciting! Bus had people from all over the world that we got to meet. The sights in Yosemite were perfectly beautiful. It was so nice to be chauffeured!

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Siladitya

Oct 21, 2024

Yosemite in Oct 2024 - Sam was friendly, knowledgeable, and easy to like. He will help you take pictures and select good photo Ops. Overall, very satisfying experience. Would recommend to others

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Louise_w

Nov 12, 2024

Great trip just need longer in the park - Great trip to see the beautiful Yosemite national park although it’s a very long drive a good 9 hours in a very bumpy bus not good for motion sickness. I think you need greater time in the park and you are left with a map to find where you want to go it’s sign posted well but a little guidance would have been better in my opinion . The music on the way there and back was very annoying and a period of silence would of been appreciated.

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Timothy_d

Oct 20, 2024

Nice day with amazing scenery - Beautiful and inspiring. Be prepared for long day in bus but if you don’t get to San Fran often and want to see an incredible part of the country well worth it. One suggestion is having more direction when arriving at park on options for your day. Suggested hikes for abilities with time for hikes. Stuff like that.

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다은

Dec 1, 2024

Dont book. There is cheaper way - My experience was the opposite of what I expected. I thought I would be paying for multiple stops that were listed in the schedule but we only made two stops. One stop was only 20 min and the other stop was 3 hours(only one major lactation was there and the rest of the time was for lunch). Where it was pretty much free time and do it ourselves. The tour guide provided barely any information. It would be cheaper and better to honestly rent a car and drive where you want to go and look up facts on google. However I don’t think it’s the guide fault. He was nice but I think it’s better to just do it yourself. I pretty just paid for an expensive bus ride to and from Yosemite.

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