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Distance: 70 miles Duration: 6 hours Start: Big Oak Flat End: Mono Lake State / Country: California, U.S.A.
The Tioga Road (Highway 120 through the park), is generally open to vehicles from late May or early June through sometime in November. It offers a 39-mile scenic drive between Crane Flat and Mono Lake through forests and past meadows, lakes, and granite domes. Many turnouts offer broad and beautiful vistas.
 Big Oak Flat Station The Big Oak Flat Information Station offers an immense amount of information about Yosemite National Park. A definite stop for those wanting to learn more about the area.  Crane Flat Fire Lookout This lookout offers fantastic panoromic views of the park, including the jagged peaks of the Clark Range to the south and San Joaquin Valley to the west.  Olmsted Point Offers a stunning view down Tenaya Canyon and the backside of Half Dome, the world-famous granite monolith rising nearly a mile above Yosemite Valley’s floor. Just eat of of Olmsted Point, you can picnic on the sandy beach at mile-long [1.6-kilometer-long] Tenaya Lake. The rock formations girding the lake exhibit glacier polish that prompted the Yosemite Indians to name it Py-wi-ack—Lake of the Shining Rocks.  Tuolumne Meadows Tuolumne Meadows has a good view of the Cathedral Range (in the background of the image, looking south), Lembert Dome and Mount Dana (to the north).  Mono Lake Mono Lake is believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption. Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, making it among the oldest lakes in North America. | 
