I was always confused about this tangle of roads. Thanks for clearing it up -- on my next visit, I think I will investigate the road from the Northside Drive/Old BOF Road junction south to the site of the former Lower Iron Bridge (El Cap Bridge) to see what is left there.by Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'd still like to see the Upper and Lower River campgrounds rebuilt; campgrounds are a good use for river floodplains, particularly if they are comparatively primitive. Those are the best spots for additional campsites in the valley, in my opinion. They should be smaller than the old campgrounds and configured differently, but I'd rather see more campsites there than in the other locations.by Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I think you are right that the OWR curved east to cross the new WR just south of the Henness Road intersection. My guess is that it is at least partially overlain by the new WR between there and some point north of Chinquapin, since I don't think the location of Chinquapin junction has changed. But there may be a short piece of it that parallels the new WR on its east side before curving back wby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The growth is so lush and thick on these west-facing slopes at around 5,000 feet elevation that it is easy to understand how the old road has become so hard to trace in just 80 or so years. Of course, the intentional obliteration that the Park Service did back then certainly hasn't helped matters. Wonder why they didn't try to obliterate the old Tioga Road and old GP Road around the same time?by Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's the platform I was referring to. Any idea what that was used for? Looks to be of much more recent vintage than from when this was still the Tioga Road (pre-1934).by Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
We have had some discussion on the old Tioga Road on the Carlon thread: http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,58064,60460#msg-60460 Toward the bottom of that thread, I've pointed out some corrections to this map; particularly that the Old Tioga Road largely follows a different alignment than the current road from Tuolumne Meadows to Tioga Pass, unlike what is shown on this map. I'm notby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thanks for the maps -- that clarifies matters. Yes, the Tioga Road map is off in a few places -- at the White Wolf/New Tioga junction, the old road didn't follow the current White Wolf access road but instead veered east off of it a little ways north of the current junction, curving diagonally to cross the road cut of the new Tioga Road just east of the White Wolf junction and then cutting strby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Well, since we're hijacking.....is the top of the old 4-Mile in a different location from the top of the current 4-Mile? If so, how/where did the Ledge Trail connect with 4-Mile (or did it just run along the current 4-Mile to Glacier Point and didn't ever connect with the old 4-Mile)? I just did Sentinel Dome last weekend (taking the old parking loop road that was closed in 1970 rather than theby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Given the restoration work they've done at the Carl Inn site, it certainly is possible that they went ahead and removed the old park entrance post. I wish my memory was better as to its exact location (or that I had taken a photo of it), but it was definitely right adjacent to the old highway, so it you can't find it now, it was certainly removed. I just went up Evergreen Road last weekend, butby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'll have to describe it to you. It has been a number of years (possibly close to 10) since I hiked the segment of the OBOF Road between Hodgson and Carlon. My memory is that the concrete post (that I assume once held the NPS sign denoting the park boundary) is/was located on the east side of the road (on the right if you are heading toward Carlon; on the left if you are heading toward Hodgson)by Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
If you hop that fence (the fence is the park boundary), and go another 20 yards or so, you will hit the Old Coulterville Road. Just to the left of where you strike the road is where the junction with the abandoned spur road connecting Hazel Green to Crane Flat used to be. A rusted locked gate across that road is buried in the underbrush. If you turn right on the Old Coulterville Road, a hundreby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I tried to hike this segment last year and was shocked to find it in such terrible condition. This road was only abandoned in 1961 and was fully paved at the time it was abandoned. It boggles the mind that it is in far worse shape than most of the other old roadways in the park, all of which have been abandoned for significantly longer than this section of the Old Tioga Road. The only thing Iby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
This has been going on for years. For a time, Mariposa County even was on this landowner's side, but I believe they have backed away from the whole mess. It's a fascinating saga that goes back to the history of the Old Coulterville Road (and Trail before that), and its originally intended alignment from Hazel Green to Crane Flat (rather than its final alignment, through Merced Grove and Forestaby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It sounds like the stretch of road that the original poster is inquiring about is the segment of the Old Big Oak Flat Road that used to connect Hodgson Meadow with the original Big Oak Flat park entrance, located adjacent to the former Carl Inn site at the old park boundary (south of the current Carlon Day Use Area on Evergreen Road). Yes, I've hiked this stretch of the old road. You wouldn'tby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Fantastic post. I went searching for this lost segment of the Mono Trail a couple of years ago from the Old BOF Road end (probably the same place you started). I didn't see any blazes either and gave up before getting to the area where the mysterious "Split Rock" cited in the Baden/Schliemann book must be. I'd really love to find that. I have a day in the park tomorrow so may give iby Rob65 - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion