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Originally Posted by dda
If you are going in April-May, you may find that some roads haven't been opened across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Major highways will be open but the snow accumulation over the winter in some areas such as the road most directly connecting Mammoth Lakes and Yosemite may be closed until June some years.
When you go from San Francisco to Los Angeles please take Highway 1. It runs along the Pacific Coast for much of that distance. It will take you through Monterey, the home of Cannery Row. Carmel-by-the-Sea, the home of Pebble Beach is nice. Also you go through Big Sur country which is very rugged coast line with a road hewn from the rock face several hundred feet above the Pacific Ocean. Very beautiful. At San Clemente you could stop and take a tour of Hearst's Castle. The greatest monument to conspicuous consumption in the US. Hearst is the person upon whom Citizen Kane was loosely based.
When you get to San Luis Obispo you would then join HWY 101 which would take you on to downtown Los Angeles via Santa Barbara.
Not the fastest way to go but certainly as scenic as any of the other places on you itenerary.
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This is very handy information, thank you. As it looks now we will head out early May because some of us can not take a holiday any later so we will hit Mammoth Lakes half May. Fingers crossed the snow has cleared by then but we'll see if we can find another way into Yosemite.