Visitors gather at Glacier Point to watch the sun set over Half Dome in California’s Yosemite National Park, which implemented a reservation entry system from 2020-2022. Photograph by MICHAEL MELFORD, ...

If you're planning to visit Yosemite National Park in California next year, you will need to reserve your entry and vehicle. The National Parks Service said Wednesday the reservation system is being ...

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) -– Reservations to enter Yosemite National Park during anticipated busy times are going to return in 2024, park officials announced Wednesday. According to Yosemite ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yosemite National Park has been dealing with overcrowding issues for decades, according to National Park Service officials. In 1980, Yosemite welcomed 2 million visitors. By 1996, ...

Timed-entry reservations to enter Rocky Mountain National Park went on sale this week for the last eight days of May and the month of June. The reservation requirement goes into effect the Friday ...

Overcrowding continues to be pressing issue impacting destinations around the world. It’s also a serious challenge that national parks throughout the United States continue grappling with. Some of the ...

National Park Week kicks off this weekend with free entry to every National Park Service site this Saturday, Earth Day, and events across the entire parks system through April 30. The next free entry ...

"The bottom line is there are too many people, too much crowding and congestion and too long of wait times at entrance ...

For Joshua Tree and the rest of the national park system, a shutdown offers no upside. It’s bad for employees, bad for visitors, bad for park resources and bad for gateway businesses. Although most ...

While federal agencies are stuck in a holding pattern, some effects of the shutdown are being felt locally right now; others could be weeks away.

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. But more than a quarter of all visitors went to the same eight ...