Hodgdon Meadow Campground

Nice campground in the forest, campsites have good tables, fire pits and huge bear lockers. The sites are not super big but that's on par for national park campgrounds. Bathrooms are fine (toilet, sinks). Location is convenient, right after you enter the park - and a 30~40 minute drive to the Yosemite valley.

Stayed at site #46. It was a hike in which not too bad imagine just walking from the front door to your house to your neighbor across the streets garage. Probably the closest hike in spot I’ve stayed in. All the sites were basically on top of each other. We stayed from mid oct ‘24 for 2 nights, Sat-mon. It was fairly busy and noisy saturday night. Sunday night we only had one neighbor. It looked like it cleared out despite it saying the whole campground was fully booked up. Bear lockers were very large. It fit our 65 qt and 48 qt cooler + 22 inch black stone with extra room to spare for all our other scented items. We did see the camp rangers walk around in the morning to make sure nothing was left out and locked in the bear lockers. There are a ton of bees in the day time especially while cooking. The ground isn’t very level so we had to kind of position our tent on the “flattest” part of our campsite. I did feel the slight angle that we had to sleep on which wasn’t too uncomfortable. We just made sure our heads were at the top of the slope. Didn’t love this site because of how close everyone was to us, you could hear everyone’s conversation. I’d suggest camping during the week for this site. This site was actually nice because it was far back that nobody really walks through your campsite. If you can, I would avoid the middle campsites by the bathrooms. I can only imagine all the people walking in and out of your campsite. There’s not really a real path to get to the bathroom. Bathrooms were clean for the most part with flushable toilets. It was surprisingly not as cold as we thought it would be since we were at the lower point of Yosemite -our thermometer read at 33 degrees at around 7am. It was much colder when we were up by general Sherman’s tree. This is a good site to camp in the winter, I think summer would be terrible and very hot.

It is yosemite! I love Yosemite. I go to yosmite all the time. This is a bare bones kinda camp site. There is no water at the individual sites. Vault toilets at the group site make for some interesting experiences. You come here for the location and the camping experience. I was able to get cell reception for a call on Verizon at the top of the hill where you checked in. The camp hosts/ Rangers did a good job patrolling, making sure fires were out. Food was put away, and dogs were on leashes.

Decently close to the valley, but many campgrounds have very little level ground and the bathrooms were somewhat dirty. No camp host and no firewood available onsite. Decently large bear boxes.

Spent 3 nights here, and enjoyed our time overall. Rangers were knowledgeable and kind. Restrooms are flush toilets only, but good for a campsite. Nearest showers are in Curry Village- easy to pay and shower at the end of your day in the valley. It’s about a 30-40 min drive from the campsite to Yosemite Valley. Tent site came with a fire ring and picnic table. There was a potable water source provided for dish washing - bring your own bucket. Deducted 1 star for loud campers that went until 1-2am. I wish the host would have been more strict with quiet hour rules.

Hodgdon Meadows doesn’t have offer some of the basic benefits of your ordinary campground experience.||1) Campsite 55 (though a generally common complaint at hodgdon) was NOT level at all. It seems to be a hillside campground, so when you lie down in your tent you start to roll. Our table was in poor condition and VERY badly sloped to the point where vegetables rolled off multiple times.||2) The ground is purely dirt—no grass or ground vegetation whatsoever. We have never stayed at a campsite that kicked up clouds of dust like this one. Did they find the lowest quality ground cover 50 minutes from the park and decide this was the best campsite? Idk but this was a very annoying.||3) My partner and I have camped many times at many parks, and every other tent site situation is private with your OWN PARKING SPACE. For some reason though, the designers of this campsite decided to get creative and arrange campsites that condense a dozen plus parking spots next to each other to squeeze campsites next to each other. It made no sense and was INCONVENIENT. Camping became such a public experience at that point. Other campers walking through your “campsite” to get to the bathroom…it was ridiculous.||4) Speaking of bathrooms, there simply aren’t enough stalls and urinals to accommodate the nightly volume of campers Hodgdon receives. Waiting to use the bathroom in the morning was inconvenient.||TLDR: The campground is in poor condition at the moment. In order to make this location comfortable, serious landscaping renovations must be done or else they should close it permanently. It could be the worst campground experience for us to date. Strongly suggest a campground closer to Yosemite Valley!

Very basic which was to be expected. However a few simple caretaking elements could make this a far more pleasant experience . A simple functional washing up area for the campers to wash and dry dishes and dispose of solids left in washing up water. Instead on large tub sink provided which was the only place to collect fresh water , which was filled with food scraps in the notion resembling sick (not a pleasant experience). Clean toilets and a simple shower .

Great place to stay outside of the valley but in the national park, very friendly camp hosts and rangers in the area. Bear lockers at every site. Campsites are close to each other and parking can be tight. About a 45 minute drive from the valley. Main downside is no showers.