Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road
National Scenic Byway 55 mi in California.
About the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road
This byway offers a spectacular passage over the Sierra Nevada. Drive through the highest automobile pass in California and experience an elevation change of over one mile. Experience glacier-carved granite peaks, pristine lakes, wildflower-covered meadows, and lush evergreen forests with Giant Sequoia groves in this serene yet rugged landscape.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: National Scenic Byway, California State Scenic Highway, National Forest Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 0 · 3.7 mi offDimond O · Forest Service · 26 sites · reservable
- Mile 1 · on the roadHodgdon Meadow Campground · National Park Service · 108 sites · reservable
- Mile 5 · on the roadCrane Flat Campground · National Park Service · 151 sites · reservable
- Mile 14 · 1.9 mi offTamarack Flat Campground · National Park Service · 54 sites · reservable
- Mile 23 · 0.9 mi offWhite Wolf Campground · National Park Service · 74 sites · reservable
- Mile 30 · 0.9 mi offYosemite Creek Campground · National Park Service · 76 sites · reservable
- Mile 32 · 5.0 mi offCamp 4 · National Park Service · 68 sites · reservable
- Mile 32 · on the roadPorcupine Flat Campground · National Park Service · 56 sites · reservable
- Mile 33 · 4.4 mi offNorth Pines Campground · National Park Service · 99 sites · reservable
- Mile 33 · 4.5 mi offLower Pines Campground · National Park Service · 75 sites · reservable
- Mile 33 · 4.8 mi offUpper Pines Campground · National Park Service · 240 sites · reservable
- Mile 47 · on the roadTuolumne Meadows Campground · National Park Service · 309 sites · reservable
- Mile 55 · 1.1 mi offTioga Lake Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 1.9 mi offJunction Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 2.0 mi offEllery Lake Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 3.1 mi offSawmill Walk-in Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 3.4 mi offWarren Fork Trailhead Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 3.7 mi offSaddlebag Lake Trailhead Group Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 55 · 3.9 mi offBig Bend Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 4.3 mi offAspen Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 55 · 5.0 mi offBoulder Campground · Forest Service
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.