Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites
1Heads up1 fire 20 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 3All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites are closed for the season. Staying at Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites requires reservations and a horse . Reservations for non-horse sites are located here: Bridalveil Creek Campground, Yosemite National Park - Recreation.gov Bridalveil Creek is located in breathtaking Yosemite National Park in Central California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The site is situated on Glacier Point Road at an elevation of 7,200 feet, 26 miles from Yosemite Valley. Keep reading
Within Yosemite, visitors can gaze upon waterfalls, sheer granite cliffs, deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, vast wilderness areas and much more. Reservation Tips! Campsites in Yosemite are extremely popular and typically sell out within minutes. Login to your account or create a new account before the 7:00 a.m. (PST) release time. You may only add reservations to your cart and proceed with your reservation if you are logged into your account. The recreation.gov call center does NOT have access to additional sites or additional information beyond what is published on recreation.gov. Yosemite National Park Campground Reservation Dates For additional park information, call (209)372-0200 or visit www.nps.gov/yose Recreation Yosemite's trails, cliffs, roads and rivers provide endless recreational activities for any kind of visitor. Hiking, biking, rock climbing, fishing, horseback riding, rafting, auto touring and photography are all very popular activities within the park. Hiking trails near Bridalveil Creek Campground are plentiful, ranging in length from a half-mile to nearly 13 miles. Popular hikes include the 4-Mile Trail, Panorama Trail, Taft Point, Sentinel Dome and Ostrander Lake.
Facilities
Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites are available by advanced reservation only. Paved roads and parking spurs, flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Each campsite contains a picnic table, water spigot, fire ring and a food storage locker.
Natural Features
The area is forested with pure stands of Red fir and Lodgepole pine, offering a pleasant combination of sun and shade. Vanilla-scented Jeffrey pine and picturesque western Juniper dot the landscape. Through the trees, Yosemite's craggy granite peaks are visible, and the gentle, refreshing Bridalveil Creek flows near the site.
Nearby Attractions
A scenic, 7-mile drive leads to Glacier Point, with sweeping views of Yosemite Valley, Little Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Vernal and Nevada Falls and Clouds Rest, among other notable landmarks. Just 45 minutes away is Yosemite Valley, an awe-inspiring landscape containing many of the famous features for which Yosemite National Park is known. Hiking trails and bike paths are abundant in the valley. Rafting the Merced River is a fun way to cool down on a summer day when water levels are sufficient. Yosemite Valley also offers numerous guided bus tours, educational programs, museums, ranger-led activities, and an art center with workshops. The Tioga Road offers a 39-mile scenic drive past forests, meadows, lakes and granite domes. Tuolumne Meadows embodies the high-country of the Sierra Nevada, with its broad sub-alpine meadows and granite domes and peaks. Beautiful Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is home to spectacular scenery and numerous wilderness trailheads.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations will be charged a $10 service fee. If the cancellation is within 48 hours of the arrival date, the first night's fee will also be charged. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund but will not be assessed an additional service fee. No-shows will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.
What the agency tells you
These sites are reserved exclusively for visitors with horses. If you arrive without a horse, your reservation will be canceled, and you will be asked to leave.
There are no horse stalls or high lines available. Horse and livestock owners are responsible for bringing and maintaining any equipment needed to safely secure their animals, including high lines, portable corrals, or electric fences. All equipment must be placed in designated areas only. Livestock must be picketed at least 100 feet from the river.
You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 375-9535; your reservation will be canceled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
Bears and wildlife are present! Food and toiletries must be stored 24 hours/day. - Food storage lockers are provided in all campsites and measure 43 inches wide x 28 inches high x 35 inches deep. - Absolutely no food stored in vehicles. - Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters. - These rules are strictly enforced!
Potable water at dump stations located one mile south of Wawona Campground on Highway 41 or in Yosemite Valley near Upper Pines Campground.
Your camping reservation does NOT get you into Yosemite for free. You must pay an additional fee per vehicle at the park entrance or buy a pass ahead of time on recreation.gov.
For additional park information, visit www.nps.gov/yose
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Help Yosemite be a Zero Landfill park! Leave excess packaging at home. Use refillable water & propane bottles, food containers and travel mugs. Place all of your recyclable waste in designated recycling containers. For more information go to: https://www.nps.gov/yose/getinvolved/zlf.htm
Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 3 · 3 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Picnicking
- Climbing
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 259th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 39 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
“- Cancellations will be charged a $10 service fee. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund but will not be assessed an additional service fee. - No-shows will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.” · this campground’s own no-show terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 sites
All 3 sites
| HORSE | HORSE #1 (HORSES ARE MANDATORY) | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft |
| HORSE | HORSE #2 (HORSES ARE MANDATORY) | equestrian nonelectric | 25 ft |
| HORSE | HORSE #3 (HORSES ARE MANDATORY) | equestrian nonelectric | 25 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Yosemite Creek CampgroundYosemite National Park · 2.7 mi
Porcupine Flat CampgroundYosemite National Park · 2.8 mi
White Wolf CampgroundYosemite National Park · 5.2 mi
North Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 7.4 mi
Lower Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 7.5 mi
Upper Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 7.8 miTake Highway 41 north from Fresno, Highway 140 east from Merced, or Highway 120 east from Manteca into Yosemite National Park. Follow signs to Glacier Point Road (located off Highway 41). The campground is located 9 miles up the Glacier Point Road, and 26 miles from Yosemite Valley.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yosemite Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 20°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →