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 ...

Every year, it seems that more national parks are requiring timed-entry reservations. Sometimes, it’s just to drive into a park. Other times it’s for specific, sought-after activities. This summer is ...

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 ...

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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

If you’re planning to visit a national park this year, you might want to get a jump on that plan because national parks across the country are bringing back timed reservations in 2025. The ...

Rocky Mountain National Park’s timed-entry reservation system goes into effect on Friday. The Mount Evans Road opened on Friday, and it also has a reservations system. Weekend reservations for parking ...

The U.S. National Park Service reports nearly 300 million recreational visits to their parks in 2021. In an effort to plan for similarly robust attendance numbers this summer, many of national parks ...

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 ...