My family and I are planning to drive from las vegas to san francisco mid april, with two overnight stops, so three days driving. We want to do the scenic route through death valley and on to yosemite. The route we had planned was to take the I15 from las vegas to baker, then the 127 to death valley junction and then west on the 190 to the 395 and up to yosemite. We had intended to go west through yosemite and on to san francisco, but reading your advice on similar queries has alerted me to the fact that the tioga pass will be closed, making it a little more complicated! We still want to take the 395 through owens valley, but if we go past yosemite and take the 108 west will the sonora pass be open, and is it a nice drive? Any advice is greatly appreciated, similarly, are there any difficulties driving through death valley at that time of year that we might not have anticipated?