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Birds you might see in the park include Blue Grouse, Gray Owls, Western Tanager, Peregrine Falcons, and Eagles

The largest mammal in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a full-grown adult male black bear typically weighs between 300 and 350 pounds, although the largest ever caught inside the park weighed a whopping 690 pounds!

Average Temperatures & Precipitation for Yosemite Valley (4,000 feet / 1,220 m) by month.

For top-notch museums, spend a few days in San Francisco, where art lovers, history hounds, and culture vultures all get their fill.

The following are a few of our favorite Sierra Nevada lakes outside Yosemite National Park.

In late spring and early summer, when melting snow from Sierra Nevada peaks thunders down into the valleys below, it's easy to imagine how millennia of erosion has shaped the landscape of the park today.

The Sierra Nevada region abounds in historical sites.

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Dozens of horseback riding trails lead high into the Sierra Nevada in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, just a half-day's drive south of Yosemite.

The most exciting white-water in the Sierra Nevada rushes outside Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, a half-day's drive south of Yosemite.

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Trout is mainly the catch here, especially rainbow and brown. Fish year-round in lakes and reservoirs; late April to mid-November in rivers and streams.

You'll find hundreds of miles of tempting single-track trails in the Sierra Nevadas.