Priests Grade in California
We are going to be going to the Thousand Trails Yosemite Lakes campground in the next month or so. We will be coming from the Central Valley up Hwy 120. Can anyone tell me what to expect(both up a...
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jbbrick wrote:
Make sure you take the newer side, not the "old" Priest Grade. You won't have any problem at all, I did it not long ago with my 32' MH pulling a car. As you do down you can look across the canyon to the folks going down the old one. It's fun and not bad at all, just gear down to save your brakes. We've stayed at Yosemite Lakes, nice park.
2x on not going off on the right side where the old/new Priest run divide like we did. We made it in our 1992 32' P30 based MH in 2011 but it was pedal to the metal doing 15 MPH in first gear for four very long miles with the temp gauge 3 hairs from the red zone. We would have been in a heap for trouble had one plug wire failed or the cooling system had not been only five years old I expect. We went out the Fresno side which is a piece of cake way in and out.
