A private hiking tour into Yosemite's real high country at Tuolumne Meadows.
A private tour for your group only — real Tuolumne Meadows, Lembert Dome, Dog Lake, and Soda Springs, in Yosemite's genuine high country.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Lembert Dome, Dog Lake, and Soda Springs, in Yosemite's genuine high-country Tuolumne Meadows area.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point at Tuolumne Meadows.
Genuine subalpine high-country terrain.
Real, distinctive high-country landmarks.
A consistently praised private high-country hike.
Dedicated, genuine expertise for your group only.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.
Up to 6
A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.
Up to 14
Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.
Up to 56
Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.
A private tour for your group only — real Tuolumne Meadows, Lembert Dome, Dog Lake, and Soda Springs, in Yosemite's genuine high country. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Lembert Dome, Dog Lake, and Soda Springs, in Yosemite's genuine high-country Tuolumne Meadows area.
Tuolumne Meadows sits at roughly 8,600 feet, making it a genuinely different kind of Yosemite from the granite walls of the Valley floor far below. It's the largest subalpine meadow in the entire Sierra Nevada, a wide, open expanse of grass and wildflowers threaded by the upper Tuolumne River, with domes and peaks rising directly from its edges rather than towering over it from a distance the way Half Dome does over the Valley.
Getting here at all depends on the Tioga Road, the only route across the park's high country, which the National Park Service typically keeps open only from late May or June through sometime in November — the exact dates shift year to year with the Sierra snowpack, and the road's nearly 10,000-foot pass can close again on short notice if an early storm rolls in. That real seasonal limit is a big part of why this high-country hike isn't available on the same year-round basis as a Valley-floor tour.
Lembert Dome, the rounded granite landmark that anchors the meadow's eastern end, and Dog Lake, a smaller subalpine lake tucked just behind it, are both real, named stops reached by trails that climb away from the meadow's flat grassland into more typical Sierra granite terrain. Soda Springs, a cluster of naturally carbonated mineral springs a short, easy walk from the main meadow, rounds out the hike with something genuinely different from either the dome or the lake — a quiet, little-visited corner of the park even by Tuolumne's own relatively uncrowded standards.
Because Tuolumne Meadows sees far fewer visitors than the Valley, a private guide here does real, practical work beyond just narrating scenery — helping you actually find Soda Springs and the real trailheads to Lembert Dome and Dog Lake, neither of which is signed as prominently as anything near Yosemite Valley's main loop.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.