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Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

#170: Yosemite’s Curry Village: The Good, The Bad and The Scary

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Places & Travel, Nature, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nestled below the granite cliffs of Yosemite Valley is a village bustling with visitors year-round. For over a century, Curry Village has welcomed guests who want to stay in this magnificent valley yet are looking for an affordable option to the other pricier accommodations nearby, namely The Ahwahnee Hotel and Yosemite Lodge. With over 500 rooms and tents, several eating options, a grocery store, a mountain outfitter, and more, visitors have everything they need to enjoy the valley without having to venture out of the park to find a place to stay. On our recent trip to the park, we spent a couple of nights in one of their cozy tents (ours had an optional heater) while we hiked to the nearby gushing falls during the day. While the place was packed with visitors, our experience was better than we expected, and we will for sure go back again. In this episode, we discuss the good, the bad, and the scary of Curry Village, including: - An overview of all the accommodations at Curry Village, - What our tent and the adjacent facilities were like, - The eating options within the village (spoiler alert - there were many, and all fantastic), - The proximity of the village to many of the activities in the valley, - Some of the aspects of the village that could have been better (the bad), - A couple of events from the past that might put a fright into even the most intrepid travelers, - And more! We now post ad-free versions of our episodes on our Patreon account (search for mattandkarensmith). If you are interested in joining, follow this link to check it out.   Subscribe to The Dear Bob and Sue Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and if you’ve enjoyed our show, please leave us a review or rating on Apple Podcasts. Five-star ratings help other listeners find our show.  Follow us on Instagram at @mattandkarensmith, on Facebook at mattandkarensmith, or check out our blog at www.mattandkaren.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So we're going to explain everything and we hope that by the end of this episode, you're either going to say, gosh.

0:37.3

Well, you don't have to say gosh.

0:40.7

Yeah, unless you're like our age or older.

0:45.5

You're either going to say, that sounds like an amazing place to stay, or you're going to say never in a million years.

0:51.7

So hopefully, after we're done here, you've formed your own

0:55.0

opinion of whether you would like to stay there or not.

1:01.0

This is the Dear Robinsu podcast, stories from our journey to all the U.S.

1:09.2

National Parks and other public lands. I'm Karen Smith.

1:12.7

And I'm Matt Smith. We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books. Today we're taking

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