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Yosemite National Park is requiring entrance reservations for weekends in February as the annual spectacle of Horsetail Fail glowing orange when backlit by sunsets draws crowds to the park.
Day-use reservations will be available on December 1st for the last three weeks of February.
Because willing to hike with you for 14 sweaty, stinky hours (and still have a good time) is the biggest green flag of them all.
Visitors will not be able to park on Tioga and Glacier Point Roads or any other area that was designated as an overnight parking area.
John Muir, often known as "the father of national parks," described Yosemite National Park as "by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature [he] was ever permitted to enter," and it's not hard to see why. Nestled right in the central Sierra Nevada, the park is roughly the same size as Rhode Island, though most of its visitation is focused on the seven square miles of Yosemite Valley. If there was one word to describe Yosemite - and the waterfalls, cliffs, meadows and trees within it that make it so special - it would be BIG.