Yosemite Valley Loop Trail

Plan a visit

Routes and geography

Published route profile

Recorded for: Yosemite Valley Loop Trail

Full loop miles

13.0

Half loop crossing

El Capitan Bridge

Half loop miles

6.5

Objective entity ids

waterfall-bridalveil-fall

Operational status requires current check

Yes

Published start entity id

trailhead-lower-yosemite-fall

Published time full

5 to 7 hours

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-yosemite-valley

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
The official Yosemite Valley Hiking Map publishes day-hike starting points, distances, estimated times, elevation gains, seasonal cautions, and route variants for Bridalveil Fall, Lower Yosemite Fall, Valley Loop, Mirror Lake, Four Mile Trail, Yosemite Falls, Vernal and Nevada Falls, and Half Dome.
Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

Before you go

These open questions need confirmation; Wayproof does not fill them with guesses.

Which reviewed NPS trail features and explicitly mapped connectors complete the remaining Yosemite Valley day-hike and wilderness route graphs?

The official trail dataset contains disconnected named components, unnamed connectors, and parallel alignments that require route-by-route map review; this batch does not snap nearby endpoints or manufacture membership.

Open question. Linked evidence does not resolve this gap.

No specific claim evidence is linked to this question.

Which reviewed NPS trail features form each Yosemite Valley route, variant, junction, and turnaround from its exact access point?

The official sources establish named routes, starts, objectives, variants, and published distances, but continuous feature-by-feature topology still requires a separate reviewed geometry pass; proximity is not a connection.

Open question. Linked evidence does not resolve this gap.

No specific claim evidence is linked to this question.

Sources, evidence, and history

Planning facts above are readable first. Open these records when you need to audit a source or see when knowledge changed.

Published ChangeSet history

wp-20260925-yosemite-valley-depth — ADD route-yosemite-valley-loop: Add reviewed Yosemite Valley planning depth.
wp-20260925-yosemite-valley-depth — ADD claim-yosemite-valley-loop-published-profile: Add reviewed Yosemite Valley planning depth.