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.

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Machah_c

Oct 6, 2024

Awesome! - Hiked up Columbia Rock (elevation 1000ft). In addition, Lisa is a terrific guide; a very knowledgeable person. This made the experience much more enjoyable.

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Vincywang2013

Oct 3, 2024

Brian is the best guide ever and fantastic tour - Brian is the best tourguide ever, he is so passionate and love to share all the interesting stories of this area as well as his life. It's more like a friend taking you on trip and you share everything. He is also considerate, trying to make everyone comfortable in the car, the whole trip was nice and fun, views are fantastic, surprisingly relax than l thought ( with Brian 10 hour back and forth won't be so bad), highly highly recommended.

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Y7935htjennifert

Sep 29, 2024

Scenery and guide were great. Highly recommend this small group tour. - Yosemite scenery was stunning. It was good to have 3 hrs of free time in the park to pursue our own interests. Walks were relaxing. Our guide, Brian, shared really interesting information and stories and was helpful. His passion for Yosemite was one of the highlights of our day. Thanks for a great day.

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Elke

Sep 18, 2024

Late summer excursion - Good service, got in at the Bart terminus Dublin. Quiet, nice competent guide, Has held the group of different nations together well.

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Warren_e

Sep 14, 2024

Brilliant Day - It was a very big day 6:50 am to 9:00 pm but worth it Yosemite is breath taking, the tour guide was professional, insight and full of knowledge Well worth the effort

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Natalie_h

Sep 12, 2024

Yosemite day trip - Amazing day trip at Yosemite. Noah was our tour guide, he was super helpful and very informative throughout the whole trip. His knowledge was amazing of not only Yosemite but San Francisco history aswell. Brilliant tour guide, you can definitely tell he loves his job.

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Christopher_r

Sep 12, 2024

Awesome tour to a beautiful place - We had Noah as guide and Pachadi as the first driver. Pachadi was a fantastic driver getting us out of the city. Noah absolutely brilliant guide with great commentary great knowledge particularly local knowledge. Highly highly recommend this.

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Stephen_y

Sep 25, 2024

Fantastic Yosemite experience - Spent a day at the stunning Yosemite valley. A long day with all the travelling but worth it for the stunning views. Mitch was a very good guide. Only small criticism was the cramped seating in the bus, especially when you’re nearly nine hours sitting down.

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Curt_e

Sep 16, 2024

1 day trip to Yosemite from San Francisco - You did very well! We had to reprogramme our plan to go by ourselves (2 people) Because of the pass requirements. I Phone You late evening the day before and You did it! The bus was Maybe the most confortable one but the driver and people was very nice! You fullfilled our plans with very short notice! I can recommend! And Yosemite is always nice. I have been there before but my partner not. Only missed to see The Sequya grove on this trip. But as a 1 day trip it was worth all the money. And it was affordable by the way. Thank You.!

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Dianne_h

Sep 20, 2024

Yosemite Park trip. - Yosemite Park was very beautiful Once we got on the bus, the driver told us that the waterfall was dried up, that was a main part of going to Yosemite Park. It would’ve been nice of via tour had formed the people that the waterfall was not flowing at this time. Our driver had a bit of road rage and a potty mouth.

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