2023 Three California National Parks

July 6 - 15, 2023

What a time to make travel plans! A hellish heat dome is covering most of the USA. Paradoxically, Tioga Pass and other roads in the chosen national parks are closed due to last winter’s record-breaking snow accumulations. Yosemite Valley establishes record-breaking high temperatures. The highest since such records were kept. What were we thinking?

Well, the trip reservations had been made months ago and it was too near the departure date to cancel and hope to get our money refunded. A couple of phone calls to NatHab restored some optimism as we learned that there were many alterations that would make the trip worthwhile despite the heat and snow interruptions.

And it all went well. Such beautiful jewels of our nation's national park system!