Adventurous vacationers who don’t mind sleeping in the cold can save at least 60% over peak season rates on weekend nights through the end of this month at one of Yosemite Valley’s most popular attractions.
Travelers’ wallets would be $34 lighter, for example, if they spent a recent night in one of Curry Village’s unheated canvas tent cabins. The cabins go for $92 a night during peak summer months and sell out for this period within minutes when they become available a year and a day in advance.
But if you’re willing to rough it, the canvas tents with a wooden frame can be had through March 27 through an unusual offer that bases the fee on the previous night’s temperature.

New snow melt, pulled by gravity and pinched between granite creek banks, races on, gathering momentum. Then, in an instant, the water leaps over the edge of a huge granite precipice into a dizzying void; a void carved out long ago by a river of snowflakes over thousands of years.