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Visiting a popular national park? Pandemic crowds have forced some to require tickets for entry

Visiting a popular national park? Pandemic crowds have forced some to require tickets for entry
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U S National Parks Boom Is Great But Overtourism Solutions Needed Urgently, Say Senators

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more The pandemic’s overtourism effect on the U.S. outdoors came into greater focus last summer, when a record number of crowds flocked to the U.S. national parks and surrounding gateway communities, many of whom as first-time visitors who’d never explored their backyard. But it’s not the increase in visitation and outdoor economy boom that’s a bad thing per se rather, the urgency lies in identifying and implementing crowd management strategies for the next five to 10 years in the most visited national parks, and these won’t be “one size fits all.”

Senate panel holds hearing on congestion in national parks

MOUNT DESERT ISLANDER WASHINGTON, D.C.  Kevin Schneider, superintendent at Acadia National Park, told the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Parks on Wednesday that he is “very pleased” with how the timed-entry reservation system for the summit of Cadillac Mountain, which went into effect in late May, is working.  He spoke remotely at the subcommittee’s hearing on overcrowding and congestion in the national parks. Maine Sen. Angus King, who chairs the subcommittee, asked Schneider about the effectiveness of the Cadillac reservation system so far.  In response, Schneider cited an encounter he had with a visitor at the summit at sunrise on the first day of the reservation system. 

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