Around the Bug
 
 
     
 

We always recommend minimum one to three day sightseeing and hiking itineraries for guests (ask upon arrival) with another activity thrown in for spice, but check out the following for that extra day of fun or if you have seen the sights already before. And remember, we are not surprised to see one to five guests a day just hanging at the Bug to relax for once in front of the fire or in a Hammock.

VDAY, Until the Violence Stops
February 14 and 15, 2008 8pm
- Bodie Room $25 Tickets
A community production of Eve Ensler's
"THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES"to benefit Mountain Crisis Services
directed by Connie Stetson. Chocolate Reception Afterwards!
V-DAY is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. More information can be found at http://www.vday.org

Rafting is the biggest attraction at the Bug from April through June. The rafting takeout from the Merced River is just 2 miles from the Bug. The Merced, one of Yosemite's gems, pulses and undulates, and makes an exciting addition to your stay. You'll find thrilling Class III and IV whitewater.

Rafting Companies:

 


OARS
1-800-346-6277


ARTA
1-800-323-2782

 
 


American River Recreation
1-800-333-7238

All-Outdoors Whitewater Rafting
1-800-24-RAFTS

 
       
 

Whitewater Voyages
1-800-400-RAFT

Zephyr Whitewater Expeditions
1-800-431-3636

 

 

Kayaking season starts in March on the Merced River, but know that you must have your own equipment to enjoy. No one rents locally. In fact all sporting activities outside of winter sports have no rentals locally except climbing. Kayaking is popular from the Red Bud Day Use Area this side of El Portal all the way to the Class VI falls above Bagby Reservoir.

BUG BUS MOUNTAIN BIKING. Bug Bus SUV takes you down to the River with a rental bike and drops you for a 3 hour ride along the river. Optional downhill switchback dirt road with views. Pick-up when you are ready. $17

Mountain biking is in season locally again. In the Spring we send people to all the rides on the single track and fire roads areas at Ferguson Ridge overlooking the Yosemite area and the Merced River Canyon. There are excellent rides over to Sweetwater Point from there to Buckingham Mountain where views stretch across the San Joaquin Valley to the Coast Ranges.

All of these are above Midpines in the Sierra National Forest on the Midpines Loop. It is also cool to ride along the Merced River on the Riverside dirt road ride and watch all the rafters and wild rapids two miles down the highway from the Bug.

Hiking along the South Fork of the Merced in wildflower season is worth all four miles there. Beautiful wildflowers and deep canyon scenery make this walk exceptional. You will find very few other people along it if you are looking for serenity.

At the end the trail opens up after some stone cabin ruins to show where the Yosemite Miwok Indians wintered before white man arrived during the Gold Rush. Beautiful isolation. You can also find scant remains of one of California's richest gold mines, its hotel, mill, mines, bridge and housing sites all named after John Hite.

El Capitan

Vernal Falls

Rafting down the
Merced River
Deer

Little Yosemite Valley

Hite's Cove Trail

Kayaking

Fireside at Amphitheater

Dogwood

Swimming hole
 
Nearby Adventures
 
 
 


BUG BUS DAY HIKING TRIPS
into Yosemite to see Yosemite Valley overlooks, Valley sightseeing stops, a hike in Yosemite Valley and a snowshoe hike into a Sequoia Grove. Informative and inspiring. Includes lunch. $50

HIKE Yosemite Valley for waterfall high season. Trailheads to eight falls at their largest volume are spectacular. These include Nevada , Vernal and Illouette Falls along the John Muir Trail, Chilnualna Falls near the Mariposa Grove.

And Hetch Hetchy's two falls are going full bore when you walk below them and get wet. Yosemite Falls itself is North America's highest waterfall and worth a spring visit.

Yosemite Falls
 
 
 

Just 25 miles from Yosemite Valley!

 
 

The Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort
6979 Highway 140
P.O. Box 81 Midpines, CA 95345
Toll Free: 866.826.7108 Telephone: 209.966.6666 Fax:209.966.6667
E-Mail: bughost@yosemitebug.com

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