Half-Ton Trailer Camping at Yosemite
Hi, y'all! I'm kind of going nuts trying to plan our trip to Yosemite. We are pulling a Sonic VRK231 which is a pretty light trailer overall but we only have an F-150. We're trying to decide on a route and a camp spot location. We're coming from I-5. On the one hand, we can enter through CA-120 and stay at Hodgdon Meadow but CA-120 is reportedly very windy and pretty decent elevation gain. But on the upside, we can drop off the trailer pretty early in the park. On the other hand we can come in on CA-140 which is much flatter to get in but once you're in there would be a 5,000 ft elevation gain to get to Bridalveil from the valley! Yikes. Does anyone that has pulled a trailer into Yosemite have any advice? Also, this is only our second season on the road with the camper. We've done a few steep grades but not for many miles so I really don't have a good feel for the capability of my rig other than to know that it pulls fine on flat and short grades.