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Snow at Yosemite gates Yosemite, CA – In just over a weeks’ time, visitors to Yosemite National Park will need a day-use reservation to enter the park. In a press release, Park officials stated, “The temporary day-use reservation system will allow the park to manage visitation levels to reduce risks associated with exposure to COVID-19.” Beginning Monday, Feb. 8th, day-use r...

Yosemite National Park, to reopen Monday after extensive winter storm damage, will again require visitors, even those only passing through for the day, to make reservations in advance, The park will start taking day-trip reservations at 8 a.m. Monday at recreation.gov for visits between Feb. 8 and

Advertisement The park introduced the day-reservation practice last year as a pandemic safety measure. Though it undercuts travelers’ flexibility, Gediman said management found that the reservation system helps rangers track and limit crowds at the popular park. The move follows a year of abrupt park openings and closures as officials struggle to cope with surging and waning COVD infection rates as well as nature’s variability. The park closed March 20 until June 11 because of the pandemic, then again Sept. 17 to 24 because of smoky air from the nearby Creek fire in Sierra National Forest...

First came the wind — gusts Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman estimated at 80 to 100 mph. Then came the crashing and crunching in the park’s Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Then rain and snow. Now, as the toll becomes clearer, Gediman said, the “Mono wind event” that began Jan. 18 has caused perhaps “the most damage” measured in the park’s recorded history, including hundreds of fallen trees and crushed structures. “We found 15 giant sequoias that were completely toppled by the wind” in the Mariposa Grove in the southern part of the park, Gediman said. “The...