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| Above, Yosemite's Half Dome from Yosemite Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
National parks are enjoying more popularity than ever. This is resulting in congestion in the more popular parks. There's just too many people.
Weather conditions are another factor in crowds.
This is the topic of a new article in Travel Weekly.
They begin it with:
Despite a drop-off in visitation this summer, overcrowding and congestion still dampened the visitor experience at many U.S. national parks.
But this time, Mother Nature was mostly to blame.
Yellowstone and Yosemite were among the parks where extensive traffic and long lines at entrances were a problem, despite a decrease in visitation compared with summer 2022. And while several factors were at play, the main one was the residual effects of last year's harsh winter and record snowfall in much of the Western U.S.
"There have been some significant weather challenges in snowfall and precipitation, which forced prolonged road closures in the region," said Jonathan Farrington, CEO of the Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Bureau in California.
To read more, go here.
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