Yosemite National Park will no longer let visitors do this
If you plan to visit the park or go camp, make sure you are ready.
Travel junkies and those who love nature flock to the country's national parks, which offer breathtaking views, different outdoor activities and the coolest places to camp. And if you have a semblance of Wanderlust,Yosemite National Park should certainly be a future travel destination. This parkextends over almost 1,200 miles, According to the official Yosemite website, and was protected for the first time by the National Park Service (NPS) in 1864. You can plan the adventure on hiking trails or simply be one with nature in the midst of Réquoia trees and deep valleys. But if you are preparing for a trip to Yosemite anytime soon, you will want to be aware of a new policy that the park has implemented. Read the rest to find out what officials say that visitors can no longer do.
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Yosemite National Park managers have published updates on a major fire.
As for most national parks, policies are regularly updated to protect travelers, as well as fauna in the park itself. Earlier this month, Yosemite National Park announced that a forest fire, nicknamed theWashburn Fire, had spread to more than 2,000 acres to Mariposa Grove, threatening her giant redwoods. "Dangerous" conditions have led to closures from the southern entrance to the park, as well as Wawona Road (Highway 41), and a compulsory evacuation prescription was issued for visitors to the Wawona region, which found in the southern part of the park.
Mariposa Grove remains closed, butResidents of Wawona and owners I just started returning home on July 17, Kcra 3. The late Washburn is currently50% content, according to an incident update, but the cause remains under investigation. And now, park officials have set up more preventive measures.
Take note of this if you plan to camp at Yosemite.
On July 15, NP announced that Yosemite visitors are no longer allowedcampfires in certain regions, with different restrictions less than 8,000 feet above sea level. Smoking is also limited throughout the park. The two policies were put in place to prevent the start of new forest fires, entering into force on July 16.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
According to the parkFire restriction page, these policies are determined according to the conditions of the Crane Flat campsite. The restrictions come into force below 8,000 feet when the energy liberation component (ERC) - or the index linked to the heat of a fire can burn according to the current conditions - expresses the 97th centile for three days consecutive. The restrictions come into force below 6,000 feet when the ERC exceeds 73rd centile for the same period.
Restrictions at the level of the park, like that in place to smoke, come into force when the air quality "is unhealthy or worse and should remain at this level or above this level for the next 48 hours" In Wawona, Tuolumne Meadows or Yosemite Valley, the so -called page.
Here's exactly what you can and can't do.
Depending on the page of fire restrictions, current policy means that visitors cannot use wood and charcoal fires, or twigs below the 8,000 feet mark. However, there are some exceptional exceptionsFront Country campsite camps (where you go to the campsite), designated picnic areas that allow these fires, residential areas where only charcoal fires are authorized (excluding El Portal and Foresta), and In the designated desert zones "in the existing fire rings greater than 8,000 feet" but below 9,600 feet.
The restriction of smoking is indeed at the level of the park below 8,000 feet, but again, there are some exceptions. Visitors can always smoke in a closed vehicle, in designated campsite and picnic areas where wood and charcoal fires are authorized, in designated smoking areas, and when arrested in An area that measures at least three feet in diameter and sterile or out of the inflammable material.
These new rules are added to existing restrictions at Yosemite.
The restrictions will remain in place "until they are canceled or replaced," said the announcement of July 15. And despite the current conditions of the park, certain fire regulations arestill In place, and you must be aware of them before your visit.
The fires must always be monitored and completely extinguished, and can only be lit in the grids, grids, existing fire rings, stoves and barbecue grids. Visitors are not allowed to burn giant sequoia materials and fireworks are never allowed inside the park. There are additional restrictions for camp fires depending on where you are in the park, but whatever the restrictions, you are always allowed to use portable stoves using pressure gas, liquid fuel, from the propane or alcohol.
Smoking, on the other hand, is still prohibited in public buildings, public concession areas, toilets, less than 25 feet from all public building and traveling on trails. However, you can smoke if you stop and stay in the same place until smoking equipment is off.
