Tioga Pass Highway 120 Closed For Winter Season
Highway 120 Tioga Pass managed by Yosemite National Park closes for the winter season 2024
Yosemite, CA — Yosemite National Park announced the closure of Highway 120 Tioga Pass and Glacier Point Road for the winter season.
Tioga Road, the continuation of Highway 120 through the park, is closed from U.S. 395 to Yosemite’s east gate. Park officials say the decision was made due to this week’s storm and the deep blanket of snow it produced.
As we reported here earlier, the end of October brought heavy snow, and Tioga Pass was the only mountain pass to reopen. Then it temporarily closed again on Monday, November 1st, as another blustery storm blew through the region. It has been closed since then.
Caltrans oversees Highway 108 Sonora Pass and Highway 4 Ebbetts Pass, which remain temporarily shut down through this month. Park officials had stated that those passes would reopen on November 4 There is no word from Caltrans whether they will follow the park’s lead and shut them down for the winter.
The winter seasonal closures of the mountain passes are typically lifted around late May or June.
