Tioga Road is a part of California State Route 120, in Mono County, California, USA, with a length of 39-mile (63km), from Crane Flat, past Olmsted Point and Tenaya Lake, through Tuolumne Meadows, and on to Tioga Pass, which at .3031m (9,945ft) above sea level is one of the highest mountain roads of California.

There are many turnouts with broad and beautiful vistas. This scenic drive through forests and past meadows, lakes, and granite domes is very exciting and sometimes very exposed and unsecured driveway in innumerable twists and turns. This drive travels from Yosemite National Park’s South Entrance, through Yosemite Valley, over Tioga Pass, California’s highest drivable pass, ending at the salt water Mono Lake, surrounded by tufa towers and mountain peaks. On the summit of the road there’s the Tioga Pass, at an elevation of 9,943ft (3.031m) above the sea level. It is the highest highway pass in California and in the Sierra Nevada. Mount Dana is to the east of the pass. The surface of the road is paved, and chains or snow tyres can be required throughout the year. Tioga Pass is named after Tioga Mine, whose name originated in New York: "Tioga" is named for an Iroquois and Mohawk term meaning "where it forks". The road was built in 1882-1883 as a mining road and was realigned and modernized in 1961.
This is a very beautiful Alpine drive, but the road is up/down and twisty, curvy all the time. It is a wide two-lane road with many turnout areas to pull off and soak in the absolutely spectacular scenery. There are no guard rails along most of the drive, so if you go off the road, it's a thousand-foot drop down the side of the mountain.

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