Hardin Flat Road

It's a gorgeous service road, fully paved, with plenty of pull-offs alongside it. Depending on the spot you set up in your phone service is either going to be spotty or non-existent. My only complaint is the number of vehicles pulling through in the middle of the night, pulling right up to where I was at with their high beams and sitting there for a while before eventually leaving.

Skeeters were pretty vicious until the sun went down, preem spot after that. Access road isn’t bad and it’s close to the park.

Totally dark, very secluded, nice place for a night.

Most of Hardin Road goes through a burn area so there is little tree cover and the scenery is not so good. The east end is still forested and there are nice sites along Rush Creek. Forest Sevices vehicles drove by nearly every half hour and you can hear some road traffic from Hwy 120 so don’t expect real seclusion.

Being so close to the entrance to Yosemite and yet deep in the peace of the forest is a golden treat. This road has both the Hardin Flat and the hardin Dispersed sites. In reality, it's all along this road - there's really no distinction and there are loads of isolated sites. A few at the East end are very near the creek so there's water as well if you filter. No other services. Verizon is 1 to 3 bars. And, it's not really that far from Groveland and the services in town. I came into Yosemite via Oakhurst (Fish Camp - Goat Meadow dispersed) and an exiting at this dispersed site. You really can see and experience it all on a truly minimal budget.

Overall solid, but the best spots will be taken early. I ended up down a paved road on the side, but one that was closed a mile further up.

Great spot a little farther up Hardin Flat Rd. I am parked across from a private drive so I can turn around with my RV if needed.

Lots of ticks! be prepared. other than that, our camp was wonderful. there were many other groups camping in this area which provided a sense of comfort. there’s a spot to throw trash away safely. really great.

Spent (2) nights here and loved it. Enough T-Mobile service for messaging and lite web browsing. Spacious pull-out with a small rock fire pit. I believe fires are allowed as long as you have a permit.

~8min drive to Big Oak Entrance and ~40min drive to Yosemite Valley Welcome Center. Why stay at Hodgdon when you can stay here!

All wheel drive, okay. Large grounds, many motorbike and trails, permit required (bikes). Camped upper level. Please pack in, pack out, don't make others clean up after you.

This was a really nice stay close to Yosemite with really spread out spots. Couldn’t even see your neighbor and the vicinity to the park made it perfect. It’s 4 stars because you could hear the traffic from the main road from my spot

Awesome spot close to Yosemite, road isn’t too bad and it’s absolutely beautiful. I wasn’t bothered . I recommend arriving a little early, we didn’t have a little trouble finding the right road.

Kind of hard to find the road i just had to guess based on the pin point but i guessed right and immediately saw spots. i turned left and there were a few spots didn't explore to the right.

So beautiful great place to stop in order to get into the park early if you don't have a reservation

May 28, 2024

Convenient to park entrance & beautiful landscape BUT finding a spot late at night was very difficult.

However, I noticed that the temperature over night here was about 10 degrees warmer that other areas nearby (we were at about 51 degrees at night but areas closer to Rush Creek Lodge and on Evergreen Road were in the 40’s.

we arrived at night, the pitches were already occupied. we tried to join a van already parked, but the man was not very friendly and asked us to leave. so we took the road further down and slept near the intersection.

Went on 4/5/24 - 4/7/24. I stayed to car camp and had an overall nice time. There was a good amount of ice but with 4x4 not problem. The ice was melting so if you go anytime after the snow should be a lot less.

There’s enough space for you to distance yourself from others.

No bear boxes or bathrooms but very safe and easy to access.

Lovely spot if you like to boondock. Hardly anyone drove by....lodge right down the road. Mountain bike/hiking trail a quarter mile up road. Extremely peaceful, pretty level and 10 minutes from park entrance. No reception!! 20 minutes from nearest town to get food

Was ideal for the one night and a ten minute drive from the park entrance. Quite and tranquil setting

I liked this spot! It was about 10 mins from the gate into Yosemite. We had a lot of space, good amount of tree cover when I rained. There’s a bunch of different spots to choose from, the one by the creek would have been nice.

Lots of available spots along Hardin Flat Road, most with good shade. Passed 10-15 pull out spots for car campers, and at least 10 more easily accessible spots for tents. We were there peak season but mid-week and spots were easy to find. Just a 10 minute drive from the entrance to Yosemite! The spots along the creek were very buggy. We found one away from the water and not at all buggy. It turned out to be near enough to Rush Creek Lodge that you could hear kid noise from the pool during the day but it got quiet after 9pm.