As summer nears, new facilities and features come to the famed Sierra Nevada destination.
Visitors Evan Baum of Menlo Park, left, his wife, Meera Oak, center, and Baum’s sister-in-law, Jackie Baum from New York, pose for a selfie at the bottom of Bridalveil Fall, where a $19.3 million dollar project was recently completed to renovate trails, restrooms, viewing platforms and interpretive signs, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Yosemite National Park, California.
Both the falls and the new “Welcome Center” were funded by federal dollars, and matched with $12.2 million in private donations from the Yosemite Conservancy, a San Francisco-based nonprofit group that for years has helped improve the park’s features. The new Yosemite Valley Welcome Center is seen on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Yosemite National Park, California.
“It’s perfect. It’s fabulous,” she said. “It was treacherous before. The trails were slippery. I’ve been here when people fell down. It’s more accessible now. And so well thought out, the way everything is integrated with the rocks and the trees.” “Bridalveil Fall is one of the iconic attractions of the park,” said Scott Gediman, a Yosemite spokesman. “There’s a lot of history here.”
An interior view of the new Yosemite Valley Welcome Center on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Yosemite National Park, California. But those parking spaces were removed when the park put in a shuttle bus system in the 1970s to deal with crowds and traffic. It became a half-mile walk from the main Yosemite Valley parking lot, tucked away amid groves of trees, shops, employee housing and park offices.
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