One of America's most beautiful national parks now facing Disneyland-level crowds

Months aft national officials instituted a caller argumentation to bring much crowds to Yosemite National Park, tourists are seemingly coming backmost with a vengeance.

Yosemite is receiving a surge of visitors, with 225,817 recreational guests successful March arsenic opposed to conscionable 155,758 visitors successful March of past year, according to SFGate.

That marks the busiest period since 2016, the California-based outlet said, and comes aft the National Park Service (NPS) precocious rolled backmost beforehand reservations astatine Yosemite.

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An NPS spokesperson, however, told Fox News Digital that the caller overcrowding claims "are not an close characterization of existent parkland operations."

The authoritative added, "Yosemite, similar galore iconic nationalist parks, experiences periods of precocious visitation, peculiarly astir weather-dependent events and vacation weekends."

Yosemite National Park is said to beryllium seeing a crisp emergence successful visitors aft officials ended beforehand preservation requirements for highest question periods. The National Park Service says determination are "periods of precocious visitation." (Eric Thayer/ Los Angeles Times)

In February, the NPS announced Yosemite would nary longer necessitate beforehand reservations, adjacent during highest summertime months.

"The parkland volition trust connected real-time postulation absorption measures, including impermanent postulation diversions erstwhile parking areas scope capableness and deployment of further seasonal unit to negociate high-use areas," the NPS said.

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The changes were rolled retired to "support beardown visitation successful 2026," per the NPS — but according to California media outlets, that worked a small excessively well.

Visitors person been struggling with overcrowding up of the engaged summertime season, with parking tons filling early, shuttle buses packed to capableness and drivers circling Yosemite Valley successful hunt of spaces, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Yosemite National Park is 1 of the astir fashionable tourer destinations successful the U.S. — and immoderate California media outlets accidental there's been overcrowding up of the engaged summertime question season. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu)

"The waits are insane," San Jose nonmigratory Kunal Khandwala said astir the shuttle service, aft struggling to find parking, the LA Times said.

John Buckley, enforcement manager of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC), described the overcrowded conditions successful an interrogation with SFGate.

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"Especially connected Saturdays and sometimes besides connected Fridays and Sundays, the magnitude of crowding successful the parkland exceeds the capableness of the parking lots, results successful vehicles parked inappropriately wherever they tin compression successful on roads, and results successful a crammed-together visitant experience," said Buckley.

National Park Service officials said Yosemite would trust connected postulation absorption measures alternatively of preservation requirements during engaged months. (Apu Gomes)

Buckley said a Yosemite visitant precocious told a CSERC unit subordinate that the crowds were "wall to wall" and that visiting the parkland "felt similar a time astatine Disneyland."

In a Facebook radical for Yosemite visitors, users complained astir the crowds successful a assortment of posts.

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"We were determination this past Saturday done Monday … Saturday it was awful, determination was perfectly nary parking anywhere," 1 idiosyncratic said recently.

"[Every day] has been busier," different wrote.

Yosemite officials antecedently announced plans to destruct beforehand reservations adjacent during highest summertime visitation periods astatine the park. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu)

"Plan connected each azygous time betwixt Memorial Day and Labor Day to beryllium exceedingly crowded," a 3rd idiosyncratic said.

Another Facebook idiosyncratic wrote, "Only mode to debar summertime crowds — to not spell successful summer!"

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Not each visitors described terrible crowding. 

Conditions seemingly alteration crossed antithetic areas of the 1,169-square-mile parkland and astatine antithetic times of the year.

Some visitors astatine Yosemite study packed parking lots, crowded shuttle buses and agelong waits up of the summertime tourism season. (Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times)

"Very uncrowded arsenic compared to summertime months. ... Weather whitethorn person contributed to this a bit, though," 1 Facebook idiosyncratic said a mates of months ago. 

Another idiosyncratic wrote connected Facebook successful the mediate of March, "Just got back, crowds are precise minimal, particularly aboriginal successful the day! I can’t representation going determination [during] highest season."

"America’s nationalist parks are unfastened and accessible."

Other societal media users described beauteous upwind and nary issues with crowds. 

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The NPS spokesperson said, "America’s nationalist parks are unfastened and accessible, and we are pleased to spot beardown nationalist involvement successful experiencing these treasured places."