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Yosemite interim superintendent outlines summer operations, digital passes and a proposed gateway-community charter
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Interim Yosemite superintendent Ray McPatton presented summer attendance, new gate-wait measurements and a draft gateway-community charter proposing quarterly coordination between the park and surrounding counties on reservation policy and major operational changes.
Interim Yosemite National Park Superintendent Ray McPatton updated the Madera County Board of Supervisors Tuesday on summer operations, a scaled-back reservation approach, technology to track entrance wait times and a proposed "gateway community" charter to institutionalize county-level input on park decisions.
McPatton said the park installed new measurement technology at entrance stations this summer to track how long vehicles wait at gates. "The vast majority of days, people are going to wait less than 10 minutes to get into the park," McPatton said, while adding that some Saturday mornings still produce waits approaching an hour, and at the South Entrance waits have reached about 90 minutes at worst.
McPatton said Yosemite launched a scaled-back, more visitor-friendly reservation system this…
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