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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jan 9, 2023 9:09:42 GMT -8
The comment period is winding down. national park… parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?documentID=125234&mibextid=Zxz2cZ“ Visitor Access Managment Plan - Public Engagement Winter 2023 How can I participate? Beginning December 9, 2022, Yosemite National Park will seek your input in order to gain a greater understanding of the complex issues and opportunities surrounding visitor access and to help identify solutions that will ensure high quality experiences, visitor safety, and resource protection Step 1. Learn about the issues On this page you can find links to a newsletter, a story map, and other materials to help you learn about the park, the planning process, and the issues that this plan is designed to address. Step 2. Join the Conversation! We know that your experience of Yosemite NP is important! Whether you come to the park every week, or have yet to visit, we want to hear from you! During this comment period, it is most helpful if you respond to as many of the questions below as you can. 1. What experiences in Yosemite are most important to you? 2. What have been the best parts of your experiences in Yosemite? What have been the worst parts? 3. What management practices or strategies has the park used to effectively address crowding and congestion? 4. What barriers get in the way of enjoying or visiting Yosemite? 5. Other thoughts you'd like to share with the project team? The National Park Service will be accepting comments through February 3, 2023.” |
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balzaccom
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Post by balzaccom on Jan 9, 2023 9:32:26 GMT -8
Yep. I commented a few weeks ago. Thanks for bringing this back up to the top.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jan 9, 2023 13:22:56 GMT -8
I hope to maybe counterbalance the “walk in from Fresno” sorts…
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jan 11, 2023 10:40:25 GMT -8
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jan 13, 2023 12:49:29 GMT -8
Virtual meeting scheduled from an email notice I received. : ”In December, Yosemite National Park launched the first phase of the Visitor Access Management Plan. Yosemite’s primary and daily focus is ensuring world-class experiences, a welcoming environment for all visitors, and protection of nationally significant resources. Like many parks across the system, providing for and managing use at Yosemite is increasingly complex due to growth in day-use visitation and changing use patterns. The purpose of this plan is to evaluate how different management strategies, including reservation systems, could help meet long-term resource and visitor experience goals. Join the virtual public meeting on January 17, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30 p.m. Park staff will share information, answer questions, and provide further information about the planning process. Registration is not required. Follow this link to join the meeting on January 17: CLICK HERE The meeting will be recorded. The initial comment period for the Visitor Access Management Plan is open now and will close on February 3, 2023. We want to hear from you. Learn more about this plan and submit your comments: parkplanning.nps.gov/YosemiteVisitorAccessFor more details on the public planning meetings: parkplanning.nps.gov/MeetingNotices.cfm?projectID=113113 Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________ Environmental Compliance Branch | Strategic Planning & Project Management Yosemite National Park (YOSE) parkplanning@nps.govimage001.png |
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Post by gabby on Jan 19, 2023 21:01:48 GMT -8
Yosemite has been on my "list" for some time. Back in the 90s, I was in San Francisco for a computer class and thought about taking the trip after, but it didn't materialize. Then, on a family trip to California in the next decade, had planned to drive there, but time got short. I don't think I'll ever get there now. But, hey, that's the way it goes. I haven't been a lot of places. Can't sweat everything!
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Post by burntfoot on Jan 22, 2023 12:58:43 GMT -8
Done. My main beef was lack of adequate parking in the valley, and I let that be known. I'm thinking they need to go back to parking outside the park and using shuttle buses to bring people into the valley.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 2, 2023 13:30:47 GMT -8
Done. My main beef was lack of adequate parking in the valley, and I let that be known. I'm thinking they need to go back to parking outside the park and using shuttle buses to bring people into the valley. They’d looked at that in the late 90’s and judged a terminus at the west end was too obtrusive and El Portal is too small pushing, it even further from the east end of the valley, the primary valley visitor destination. the longest term solution imho is that remote site; but serviced by a gondola system which would be faster than a surface bus and not subject to the floods, ice, snow and rockfall the roads are. Getting people into public transport has to be convenient; especially for day visitors whose time is limited; hours on a bus doesn’t cut it. id previously leaned toward a modern update of a suspended rail, there’s one been operating in Germany for more than a century; getting it out of the floodplain and being fast has a lot of benefits. But recently in the news there’s reports of a gondola system put in place for similar reasons, and the cables would be even less obtrusive than the rail and as this is a modern system a lot of the engineering has been done. Still off the surface www.sltrib.com/news/2022/08/31/udot-makes-its-pick-little/www.scribd.com/document/590355504/Little-Cottonwood-Canyon-enivromental-impact-statement-executive-summary-8-31-2022AT SIXTEEN PLUS MILES (Curry to El Portal as a rough guide) it’s similar to the 8 miles of the Utah project. I came across the Utah DOT home page for the project. Included it in my response to Yosemite. littlecottonwoodeis.udot.utah.govIt's down a ways on my list, I think reforming the Wilderness Permit system to get everyone going into the backcountry up to speed on wilderness regulations and best practices is a much more achievable goal. Then doing some tweaking on the valley parking, I'm thinking in/out counters and informational signs. My local mall has had that on their parking structures for years: eliminates that futile orbiting searching for a space at the holidays. Get people in the valley into an available parking spot and their car off the road. |
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