Miles: Tuolumne Meadows to Yosemite Valley

Location	*Elevation*	*Mileage*
Tuolumne Meadows Store, Grill, & P.O.	8575	0
	+15	.62
West End of Campground Road Unicorn Creek	8590	.62
	+30	.32
Visitor Center Junction on JMT Mileage Sign Post	8620	.94
	-30	.52
Wilderness Boundary Junction on JMT Mileage Sign Post	8590	1.46
	+840	2.59
Lower Cathedral Lake Junction Lake Campsites: .5 mile spur trail Mileage Sign Post	9430	4.05
	+170	.54
Upper Cathedral Lake Sign Campsites	9600	4.59
	+120	.50
Cathedral Pass	9720	5.09
	+100	1.40
Under Base of Colombia Finger	9820	6.49
	-300	1.14
Upper Long Meadow Junction Mileage Sign Post	9520	7.63
	+/- 00	.81
Bottom of Long Meadow Junction near Sunrise HSC Mileage Sign Post	9520	8.44
	+160	1.49
High Point Above Sunrise Creek	9680	9.93
	-1130	1.23
Upper Sunrise Creek Ford Campsites	8550	11.16
	-350	.95
Rim of Merced Canyon	8200	12.11
	-200	.78
Forsyth Trail Junction Mileage Sign Post	8000	12.89
	-110	.18
Merced and Washburn Lakes Trail Junction & Mileage Anomaly Mileage Sign Post	7890	13.07
	-410	1.11
Lower Sunrise Creek Ford Campsites	7480	14.08
	-260	.75
Clouds Rest Trail Junction Campsites Mileage Sign Post	7220	15.83
	-200	.52
Half Dome Trail Junction Mileage Sign Post	7020	16.35
	-880	1.41
Little Yosemite Valley Junction To Campsites Trail Junction	6140	17.76
	+/- 00	.15
Little Yosemite Backpacker Camp Campsites Mileage Sign Post along Merced River	6140	17.91
	-20	.46
Junction on West End of Little Yosemite Valley	6120	18.37
	-150	.58
Uppermost Mist Trail junction Ranger White Boards Mileage Sign Post	5970	18.95
	-40	.14
Nevada Falls Bridge	5930	19.09
	+70	.20
Glacier Point Trail Junction Mileage Sign Post	6000	19.29
	-510	.93
Clarks Point-Middle Mist Trail Jnc Mileage Sign Post	5490	20.22
	-900	.73
Lowest Mist Trail Junction Mileage Sign Post	4590	20.95
	-190	.14
Merced River Footbridge	4400	21.09
	-365	.71
John Muir Trailhead Mileage Sign Post	4035	21.8

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Mileage Notes

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Start and End Points

Yosemite's steel-cut mileage signs at trail junctions between Yosemite Valley and "Tuolumne Meadows" cite the Tuolumne Lodge and its associated High Sierra Camp as its measured end point.

Zero Point Discussion

Steel Signs
History of Yosemite,
trail signs, 6th paragraph.

Natural
Start and End
Point
The vast majority of backpackers hiking the John Muir Trail in the conventional direction from the Valley to TM end this section at the Post Office, store, cafe, and ultimately in the Tuolumne Backpacker's Camp.

A few do stay in the tent cabins in Tuolumne Lodge (why?), and a few more pay for the "family style" Tuolumne Lodge dinners.

Nonetheless, the Post Office and its associated facilities are the center of long distance backpacker activity in Tuolumne Meadows.
Therefore the Tuolumne Meadows Post Office is the Mileage Zero Point used for all trails into and out of Tuolumne Meadows on this guide.

Despite our consistency and discipline there are a number of mileage anomalies in all our sources. There are always anomalies in our figures. The forces of man and Nature are unceasingly altering the run of our route across the terrain.

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