Often times, the parking pad in the campground is actually large enough, but the actual loop road to get to the site is not able to be maneuvered by large rigs (the campground roads were build long before rigs became so large). So, the length of the parking pad is not always the only indicator if you will fit. (I used to work in the valley campgrounds). The length limits are conservative, butby yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I believe it is The Winter Club room.by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
With budget cuts, the campgrounds can't open any earlier.by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Don't forget though, with government budget cuts, plowing operations (and other facility openings) may be delayed due to staff cuts.by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It is first-come, first-serve, so has availability for the weekend too as it just opened....by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Yeah, there is a 7 day limit for Yosemite Valley camping this time of year, so technically, if everybody who booked the day before you arrived booked for 7 days, there would be no availability for 7 days. This doesn't happen of course, there is always some turn-over each day, but it is in no means the entire campground becoming available each day....by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
As stated above, often it has nothing to do with the size of the parking pad, and more to do with maneuverability. I know there are entire loops in North and Lower Pines that large rigs cannot make the turn down, yet the pads are large enough....by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Also, if you notice, the reservation period this year started on July 13, not the 15....It differs year by year depending on how the weekends may fall...by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
This is a year unlike most others with early openings possible and likely. In past year's, when the campground is able to open a week or so before the reservation period, they will just leave it on a first-come, first-serve basis. But this year, when it is highly probably that the campground will open maybe a month or more before the predicted reservation period, they will definitely put half oby yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Actually, the park's Facebook page says that if (and when) the Tuolumne campground opens early this year, it will be placed half on reservations, half remaining first-come first serve.by yoser - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion