Yosemite National Park Day Trip from San Francisco: Full-Day Guided Tour

The first light of the day catches the Golden Gate behind you as a coach eases out of San Francisco, coffee cups in hand and the city skyline shrinking into memory. Onboard, a guide sketches the route: over the Bay Bridge, through the Central Valley’s patterned fields, and up into the Sierra where granite begins to assert itself—massive, patient, unmoving. By midmorning the bus slides into Yosemite Valley and the windows fill with cliff faces: El Capitan rising like a vertical continent, Half Dome angled into the sky, Bridalveil Fall cutting one clear line of white.