Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yosemite Valley, California
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Yosemite Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Yosemite Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Yosemite Valley itself.
The rest sit in Yosemite Village (8).
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Yosemite Valley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Yosemite Valley
The readers mapped around Yosemite Valley break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- El Portal Road — 4 readers
- Northside Drive — 4 readers
- Southside Drive — 4 readers
- Wawona Road — 2 readers
Yosemite Valley in the Mariposa County picture
Mariposa County has 15 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #147 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.8% nationally. That’s across 17,060 residents and 2,403 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 55.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Yosemite Valley, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Yosemite Valley. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Yosemite Valley
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Yosemite Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yosemite Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Yosemite Valley
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Yosemite Valley, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Yosemite Valley, CA
What you can do in Yosemite Valley
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Yosemite Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).