Gfurey wrote:I am going snowshoeing to little Yosemite valley along the muir trail in a few weeks, I wanted to check out Tuolumne in the winter, Tuolumne in the summer is amazing, but i heard the road out to the trail head is always closed in the winter. When did you do it? Is there another way out there?
Highway 120 is closed. You can ski the road, but it's a long ways to go and you would need to be prepared for overnight camping in deep snow. Would be shorter from the other (eastern) approach but you will still need skis to get there, as the road is snowed in completely and gated.
Also, part of the JMT in that section is closed. Your route will take you up the lower part of the JMT and along the cutoff trail that will drop you above Vernal Falls, where you will be on the Mist Trail to the top of Nevada Falls. Suggest you ask a ranger and review a map of the area.