Yosemite National Park: How Crowded Is It?

Above, The Beast at North Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Ever wondered how crowded it gets in Yosemite National Park?

The Sacramento Bee has an article that will answer that question.

It starts with:

Here’s how crowded Yosemite National Park has become: The number of visitors last year topped the number of residents in 27 different states. 

As the National Park Service considers doubling summertime entrance fees at Yosemite and other popular parks, the crush of visitors – and traffic – keeps increasing. 

About 5 million people visited Yosemite in 2016, up by more than a million from just three years earlier, the latest federal data show. For perspective, that number of visitors is roughly equivalent to the population of Colorado. 

The vast majority - more than 90 percent - of those visitors arrived by car.

And that's only for starters.

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