Yosemite Road Closed, here's a way around

Visitors to Yosemite National Park who are accustomed to arriving via its western entrance at El Portal have been foiled by a rock and soil slide last that closed a 600-foot section of Highway 140 eight miles west of El Portal. During the first week of May 2006, large rocks and soil began falling onto the Sierra foothill roadway and into the adjacent Merced River above Mariposa County's Highway 140. The Ferguson Rockslide, as it is now known, eventually covered a 600-yard section of the highway with an estimated 2-3 million cubic yards of material.
Even though that section of Highway 140 has been closed Yosemite National Park is still open. The park can be reached using Highway 120 -- via Groveland -- and Highway 41 -- via Oakhurst from the south through Oakhurst remain open and free-flowing for visitation into Yosemite with no restrictions.
That means visitors can still take Highway 140 to Mariposa and from there swing south on historic Highway 49 to connect to Highway 41 through the town of Oakhurst and into the southern entrance of the Park.
Officials from the National Park Service and its concessionaire, DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., have said that Yosemite is open for business as usual and is easily reached by automobile via these two commonly used state highways.
"The only section of Highway 140 that is currently closed to all traffic is the small section covered by the rockslide, which is located 20 miles east of Mariposa and 8 miles west of El Portal. It is open from Merced at Highway 99 through and beyond the picturesque and historic town of Mariposa, with continuing routes out of Mariposa into Yosemite via Highway 49 southeast to Highway 41 north, and via Highway 49 north to J20 northeast to Highway 120 east. Highway 140 is also open from Yosemite Valley west downstream into the Merced River canyon through and beyond the town of El Portal."
Information on any of your tours and events in Yosemite National Park may be found at www.YosemitePark.com/summer.


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