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 3,850,487 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.
Designation, states, and coordinates come from the official NPS unit page. Annual visits and the busiest and quietest months are computed from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025 on NPS IRMA Stats. Each month's crowd label compares its five-year mean to the park's peak month. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.
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.