Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite

101 Things To Do In The Southern Sierra Region

We’ve created this guide so you can discover the quietly thriving Southern Sierra region. It’s a landscape where nature and history remain well preserved – alive in pristine condition – offering guests a chance to embrace the energy of the Old West. For example, you can come face-to-face with a talking grizzly bear, soar like an eagle on a zip line, pan for gold, relive headlines of bygone eras in a cabin insulated with turn-of-the-century newspapers and go behind the scenes of a classic California cheese factory. Excursions for the brave exist here, too, in mountain reservoirs, along thundering waterfalls, or atop hefty pack mules.

The options are all here, clearly detailed within these pages that also include contact information, driving times and helpful hints – making your journey equally easy and fun. So turn back the clock and prepare to take lessons from history’s greatest and oldest teacher around – the Southern Sierra Region.

 Download a printable PDF (923KB) of the signature guide for ready reference. We hope you have as much fun reading it as we did researching it!

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