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Mr. Ed Maps & Directions
Maps AAA Yosemite Map showing road
from Oakhurst/Bass Lake to the Pack Station (187kb) Topo map from Pack station to
1/2 way point
99 to Fresno - North on 41 past Oakhurst turning right to Bass Lake Road ("town" of Yosemite Forks at junction). Take that road to Bass Lake and circle ½ way down north side of lake to Beasore Road. Go Left. Take Beasore roughly 28 miles to Dirt Road on right, hopefully it will have a sign to Minarets Pack Station. If you hit Bowler Group Campground, or go by Jackass Meadow before you've turned off, you've gone a little too far. Go about 3 miles on Dirt Road to Pack Station. Check in at Pack Station to see if there are any messages from us. To get to trailhead: Go back out dirt road, when get back to Beasore Road turn right (east). In about 1.7 miles you'll hit a dirt road on the left, hopefully marked as going to the Norris Trailhead. You'll get to trailhead in about 1.8 miles Trail Directions: Starting at Norris Trailhead, take trail to the west. In about 0.1 mile the trail will split. Take the north fork . At 1-mile the trail will converge with another trail from the pack station coming in from the left. Keep going straight. In 0.2 mile the trail will split, I recommend you take the southern trial which heads SW. In 2.3 miles you'll see Vanderburgh Lake on your left. Trail will circle around the north shore of the lake. About 0.1 mile past the lake the trail will split, take the northern fork which heads almost due west. The trail will go west then veer northward. In 0.6 miles a trail will split off to the left (Chittenden Lake & Shirley Lake), keep on right fork heading now almost NE. In 0.7 miles another trail will join this one from the left, and almost immediately you'll cross a creek and see Lillian Lake on the left. I think the camping spots are on the Northern shore of the Lake. |
