YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- Yosemite National Park is seeing heavy congestion at the start of its first summer without a timed reservation system, with visitors reporting long lines, ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Yosemite National Park is seeing heavy congestion at the start of its first summer without a timed reservation system, with visitors reporting long lines, limited ...

On Saturday, May 2, I was walking through Camp 4 overflow parking lot in Yosemite National Park when my phone rang. “I just got ice cream, and I’m heading to El Cap Meadow to hang,” my friend Katy ...

Yosemite National Park and other national parks across the country have dropped their entry reservations for 2026 — and are now facing problems with overcrowding. Back in February, Arches, Glacier and ...

Travelers headed to Yosemite National Park this spring are encountering something the park had largely managed to avoid since the pandemic days: unrestricted peak-season traffic. After five years of ...

This will be the first year since the pandemic that Yosemite National Park will not require travelers to use its timed reservations — and with summer quickly approaching, this is perhaps the best time ...

Visitors hoping for peaceful mountain views at Yosemite National Park instead found themselves trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, circling packed parking lots and waiting in massive lines after the ...

California’s most visited national park is seeing big crowds — the most people in a decade. Over the weekend, the wait in traffic to get through the park entrance was 1½ hours. Critics are blaming the ...

April showers bring spring wildflowers across Yosemite National Park with the first blooms of the season peeking out to welcome visitors. Warming weather means park goers will be treated to fields of ...