Re: Access to Elizabeth Lake Trailhead this summer

I have friends going to YNP this summer, entering from Tioga Pass (which presumably will be open by the time they come). Since TM CG will be closed, should they plan on parking by the TM Wildnerness center or by Lembert Dome, or is there a chance that people hiking to Elizabeth Lake will be allowed to park by what I think was the group campground?

On the last day that Tioga Road was open, the group camp at Tuolumne was being used as storage...piles of rocks and gravel, plus stacks of cut trees. It might be possible that there will be parking where the old gas station was, but I suspect that lot was available because all of the equipment had been removed for the winter.

I believe the park's official alternate route is to park by the Wilderness Center and follow the JMT east to the Elizabeth Lake trail.