{"id":2243,"date":"2022-05-16T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T06:05:26","slug":"future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>One of the park&#8217;s biggest problems is overcrowding&#8230;too many people converging on the priceless beauty of Yosemite. We&#8217;re talking 4 1\/2 million visitors a year. During peak visitor periods, the result oftentimes is near gridlock conditions. !n 1994, there were an unprecedented 7 weekends when visitor access was actually restricted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Additionally, there are related issues, including diesel-spewing tour buses. Some of the solutions being suggested are controversial: a huge parking garage in the already overbuilt Yosemite Valley, or an expensive shuttle system that would route visitors in and out of the valley. Superintendent B.J. Griffin has issued a newsletter addressing this overcrowding problem&#8211;a problem so bad, Griffin says, that &#8220;given the daily vehicle congestion and resource damage resulting from current visitation levels, unrestricted access cannot continue&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>For the full text of this thought-provoking newsletter, click here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planning\/yosemite\/news\/news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planning\/yosemite\/news\/news.html<\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yosemitegold.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}