Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park to be closed for road construction during the 2021 visitor season

Yosemite National Park will host a public meeting in Oakhurst, California from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 on the upcoming Glacier Point Road Rehabilitation Project. All are welcome to attend this meeting to learn more about the Glacier Point Road Rehabilitation Project, which will be held at the Oakhurst Community Center (39800 Fresno Flats Road, Oakhurst, California, 93644).

The Glacier Point Road Rehabilitation Project will address multiple severe safety issues on the ten miles of road located between the intersection to the Badger Pass Ski Area and the Glacier Point Parking Area. Some of the road safety issues that will be addressed in this project include:

• To Pulverize and repave ten miles of road between Badger Pass and Glacier Point.
• To Repair the narrow hairpin turns between Washburn Point and Glacier Point to address vehicular safety issues
• To construct additional parking and new vault toilets near the Sentinel Dome Trailhead
• And More

At this community meeting, staff with Yosemite National Park will provide presentations on the project between 4:30 pm and 5:00 pm, followed by an open house from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Yosemite National Park will be gathering public feedback on the Glacier Point Road Rehabilitation Project at this meeting. National Park Service staff will also provide information on the upcoming roadwork on Tioga Road.

This critical road work on Glacier Point Road is scheduled to begin in spring 2021. Glacier Point Road will be closed for the entire 2021 visitor season, and there will be traffic delays on Glacier Point Road in 2022. More detailed information on this project and all associated public comment materials are currently available at https://parkplanning.nps.gov/glacierpointroadrehab. The public comment period will be open until September 19, 2019.

If you build it they will come. Then you will have to talk about how to restrict or accommodate the impact that all the people have on nature and their experience within. Then you will have to have a meeting called the Rehabilitation project to figure out how to deal with the human footprint. Then you will build more or expand. If you build it they will come. Classic Yosemite conundrum. What to do. I know, Lets build more to accommodate more and then complain about how overcrowded it is. Cant wait till 2022 when and if it reopens so i can join in on the fun. Personally i haven't been back to Glacier Point for 3 years by car or bus, Since the last time it took me over an hour to get from Sentinal dome to Glacier Point parking lot, only to not have any parking space. But i have gone up the four mile trail several times. I know id go more if the roads were better suited for travel by auto. If you build it i will come. Keep building and making it easier Yosemite. You need more business.