#john-muir-trail
7 trips tagged “john-muir-trail”
john-muir-trail backpacking at a glance
CaliPeaks documents 7 California backpacking routes tagged john-muir-trail, ranging from 7 to 210.4 miles with 1,000–47,000 feet of total climbing. Difficulty spans 12/100 (Easy) on Cathedral Lakes up to 100/100 (Extreme) on John Muir Trail (Full), which also carries the tag's biggest climb at 47,000 feet. All of these routes require a wilderness permit — each trip page links the booking window.
These routes cross Yosemite National Park, Inyo National Forest, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Sierra Nevada, and the months most of them share are July, August, September. Every stat below is cited on its trip page, so you can compare them like-for-like and follow any number back to the managing agency.
Cathedral Lakes
Cathedral Lakes are two granite-ringed tarns at the foot of Cathedral Peak's iconic spire, 3.5 miles up the John Muir Trail from Tioga Road.…
John Muir Trail to Yosemite Valley
The John Muir Trail's grand finale runs 22 miles from Tuolumne Meadows to Yosemite Valley, descending past Cathedral Peak, the Sunrise count…
Rush Creek to Thousand Island Lake
This out-and-back climbs the Rush Creek drainage from the June Lake Loop to Thousand Island Lake, a granite-bound alpine basin at the foot o…
Happy Isles to Tuolumne Meadows (JMT)
This is the John Muir Trail's first act: 22 miles and 5,900 feet of climbing from Happy Isles past Vernal and Nevada Falls, below Half Dome,…
Rae Lakes Loop
The Rae Lakes Loop is a 41-mile circuit through the heart of Kings Canyon National Park that climbs from the Kings River canyon over 11,978-…
North Lake–South Lake Loop
This five-to-seven-day traverse links two classic Bishop trailheads — North Lake and South Lake — into one of the finest big loops in the Si…
John Muir Trail (Full)
The John Muir Trail runs 210 miles from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney — through three national parks, two wilderness areas,…