Car Hire in Fresno - Getting to Fresno

Fresno Yosemite International Airport lies approximately eight kilometres to the east of Fresno city centre. It deals mainly with domestic flights, with most international flights first alighting at Los Angeles or San Francisco.

From LA or San Francisco, passengers have the choice of either catching a connecting flight to Fresno, or travelling overland for the remainder of the journey.

From Fresno Yosemite International Airport, bus number 26 travels regularly to Fresno. Taxis, although more expensive, are a great deal quicker. During the summer months, a private charter bus also departs daily from the airport to Yosemite National Park.

Many people use Fresno as a stopover on road trips headed for the Sierra Nevada Mountains. California 99 is the Central Valley’s major road route, and this passes through Fresno before heading on to Bakersfield.

This highway is blessed with wonderful scenery, especially in spring, when wildflowers and blossoming orchards make the drive to Fresno a pleasure in itself. A less scenic, but faster way of reaching the town is by taking I-5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which has many exits into the valley and to the east.

Amtrak’s San Joaquins train service runs from Sacramento to Bakersfield via Fresno.