Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park in CA, United States. The US National Park Service commemorates its 100th anniversary on August 25, 2016. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS13) - It's just a few days before July, but Caltrans crews have only just reopened the back door to Yosemite known as Tioga Pass. Thursday morning, the roadway was ...

Last weekend, on July 22nd, National Park officials opened Yosemite's Tioga Pass Entrance -- the latest seasonal opening for Tioga Pass since the route's birth in 1915. The previous latest opening ...

Tioga Pass, Yosemite’s busy back door, will finally open to vehicles at 8 a.m. Thursday, a month later than usual. Bike riders and hikers can begin using the road at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The date that Tioga Road reopens for summer varies year to year. Last year, a historically wet winter rendered the pass unusable until July 22, the latest the road had ever opened since the park ...

Update, 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 28: One of Yosemite National Park's iconic byways -- the Tioga Road, aka Highway 120 across Tioga Pass -- will reopen Thursday after crews cleared it of monumental ...

All three mountain passes in the Mother Lode are now open from winter closures following the reopening of Tioga Road on Highway 120 through Yosemite National Park on Thursday.

And the highest of all the mountain routes I could see crossed Tioga Pass, at an altitude that rounds to 10,000 feet. Nearly two miles above sea level.

It has been four years since Tioga Pass was closed until July 1 in 2019. Record snow levels have resulted in late openings for the seasonal passes. Share this story Share.

The Tioga Pass Road, the famous “back way” into the park from the Eastern Sierra, stayed open past Christmas, past New Year’s Day and even after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.It ...