National Parks Requiring Summer Reservations

Above, The Watchman at Zion National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There's nothing wrong with the U.S. national parks. Well, except some have infrastructure issues due to funding neglect stretching over years. The problem rests with the stark fact that there's just too many people wanting to visit them.

The problem increased during the pandemic as they were seen as a way to get out of government-imposed restrictions and quarantines.

The National Park Service had to take action and implement reservation systems to control crowds.

There are some national parks requiring reservations this summer and Travel + Leisure has posted an article on which.

They it begin with:

Nothing says summer like being in the great outdoors, and a trip to a national park is one of the best ways to do that. This year, several popular national parks are implementing reservation systems to control crowds. (For reference, there were more than 311 million visitors to U.S. national parks last year alone, according to the National Park Service.)

From Acadia National Park in Maine to Haleakalā National Park in Hawaii, national parks are increasingly rolling out these advanced reservations and building on the success of similar systems in past years. 

These are the national parks that will require a reservation this summer, and how to make one.

To read more, go here.