Is the pass open? Is it snowing at the summit? Are the crowds already three deep at the overlook? 195 official National Park Service cameras answer that before you pack the car.
Straight from the park's own camera. The Park Service publishes a new picture every few minutes, and this one re-fetches itself about every two while the tab is in front of you — the button is there for when you cannot wait.
This webcam looks west from the edge of the Giant Forest. In summer, a gray layer of polluted air can be seen forming over the valley. Rarely can you see both the San Joaquin Valley and the Coast Range beyond that. With increasing air pollution blowing up into the Sierra Nevada from the Bay Area and the Valley, very clear days are becoming ever more rare.
Open the viewCameras, images and status messages come from the National Park Service API and open on nps.gov — we link rather than embed, so you always see the park's own current player. Views refresh on the park's schedule, not ours.
The first number is how many cameras are working now. Every camera opens on nps.gov — we link rather than embed, so you always get the park's own current player, and this page can't break when the Park Service changes it. Data from the NPS API.