Park overview · YOSE

Yosemite.

Yosemite National Park: National Park in CA.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Yosemite National Park is a U.S. National Park Service unit in California (NPS unit code YOSE), known for the granite walls of Yosemite Valley, Tioga Road's high-country crossing, and Glacier Point Road's seasonal access. The park recorded 4,278,413 recreation visits in 2025 and runs a 5-year mean of 3,850,488 annual visits. The busiest month is August and the quietest is January: winter visits run at roughly a fifth of summer's peak because Tioga Road and Glacier Point Road close to wheels for the cold half of the year. This page is the navigation anchor for Yosemite coverage on this site: the best-time-to-visit pillar covers month-by-month crowd, weather, and access, including the 2026 day-use reservation status; the visitation page covers the long-run annual chart including the day-use cap years.

Yosemite on this site.

Yosemite National Park is a U.S. National Park Service unit designated as a National Park, located in CA (NPS unit code YOSE). For when to go, what each month looks like, and the access calendar, follow the best-time-to-visit page. For the long-run visitation history and the disruption events that shaped recent years, follow the visitation page.

Park data card

FieldValue
DesignationNational Park
StateCA
NPS unit codeYOSE
Latest annual visits (2025)4,278,413
5-year mean annual visits3,850,488
Busiest month (5-yr mean)August
Quietest month (5-yr mean)January

Month by month

Methodology

Identity, designation, and coordinates come from the official NPS unit page. Annual recreation visits, busiest month, and quietest month are computed from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025 on NPS IRMA Stats. This hub does not duplicate the per-month editorial that lives on the best-time page or the year-by-year chart that lives on the visitation page; follow those links for the deep view. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

Independence

Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.

Last updated · 2026-05-17