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Attractions near Virginia Lakes

Nothing in Virginia Lakes itself: Yosemite National Park is 3 mi away

Around 4.3M people visit Yosemite National Park each year. Nothing is mapped inside Virginia Lakes, but 22 places to visit are within 40 miles. On the list: 5 waterfalls, 5 attractions and 3 lakes, among others. Allow a day for Inyo National Forest, 55 mi off.

Attractions nearby
34
within 60 miles
The big one
3 mi
Yosemite National Park
National park units
2
parks & monuments
Ski areas
5
Mammoth Mountain
Big draws
2
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Park · 3 mi west

Yosemite National Park

National park in California, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Finding your way

The map puts most of the 22 to the southwest.

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Orange: Virginia Lakes. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place after place

Each of the 34 is within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Virginia Lakes →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Yosemite National Park: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Half Dome: Jon Sullivan, Public domain · Mono Lake: File:Mono lake sat.jpg: created by NASA Rotation and crop: Hike395, Public domain · Hetch Hetchy: Vulpinus2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mammoth Mountain: Hike395 (talk · contribs), CC BY 3.0 · Devils Postpile National Monument: Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Yosemite Falls: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Convict Lake: The original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia., CC BY 1.0 · Inyo National Forest: Cullen328, CC BY 3.0 · Calaveras Big Trees State Park: John J. O'Brien (talk · contribs), Public domain · Glacier Point: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Taft Point: Dave from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Ansel Adams Wilderness: Hike395 (talk · contribs), CC BY 3.0 · Sierra National Forest: Smack (talk · contribs), Public domain · Stanislaus National Forest: U.S. National Park Service, Public domain · Horsetail Fall: Ambitious Wench, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad: Bobtalbot61, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tunnel View: Amysey, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vernal Fall: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Nevada Fall: self, Public domain · Dodge Ridge Ski Area: IanGad, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bridalveil Fall: Walter Siegmund (talk · contribs), CC BY 2.5 · Bear Valley: Shayan Sanyal, CC BY 2.0 · June Mountain: Frank K. from Anchorage, Alaska, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Olmsted Point: Eeekster, CC BY 3.0 · California State Mining and Mineral Museum: California Department of Parks and Recreation, Public domain · Hawthorne Ordnance Museum: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mariposa Grove Museum: Kevin R Foote, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yosemite Museum: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Glacier Point Trailside Museum: Wearsunscreen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mineral County Museum: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sierra Point: Wingchi Poon, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yosemite History Center: Wearsunscreen, CC BY-SA 3.0

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