In 2024, Yosemite National Park welcomed a total of 4.1 million visitors. This was an increase from the previous year, when the park had 3.9 million visitors. Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park is a large national forest located in central California. It was founded in 1864 and boasts over 1,200 square miles of vast wilderness, glaciers and winter sports. The park is known for the famous El Capitan rock formation that is popular among climbers around the world. Yosemite is among the most visited national parks in the U.S. with other big names such as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Zion National Park. Looking at attendance at park attractions and similar sites in the United States, national parks attracted the largest number of visitors in 2023. Climbing and Hiking in the U.S. Rock climbing and hiking is a popular pastime at parks like Yosemite. Hiking and climbing have been increasing in popularity across the United States. In 2024, the number of people participating in hiking in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 63.4 million individuals. Moreover, hiking was also the most popular outdoor activity in the U.S. followed by fishing in 2023.

The graph depicts the number of overnight visitors to Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, there were almost 57 and a half thousand overnight visitors to Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of over 51 thousand.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 4.4 million visitors in 2019.

In 2023, Yosemite National Park welcomed a total of 3.9 million visitors. This was an increase from the previous year when the park had 3.67 million visitors. However, the 2023 figure was still lower than the visitation rates experienced before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, when over four million visitors passed through Yosemite's gates between 2015 and 2019. Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park is a large national forest located in central California. It was founded in 1864 and boasts over 1,200 square miles of vast wilderness, glaciers and winter sports. The park is known for the famous El Capitan rock formation that is popular among climbers around the world. Yosemite is among the most visited national parks in the U.S. with other big names such as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Zion National Park. Looking at attendance at park attractions and similar sites in the United States, national parks attracted the largest number of visitors in 2021. Climbing and Hiking in the U.S. Rock climbing and hiking is a popular past time at parks like Yosemite. Hiking and climbing have been increasing in popularity across the United States. In 2021, the number of people participating in hiking in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 57.81 million individuals. In 2021, running, jogging, and trail running was the only outdoor activity more popular than hiking in the U.S..

The region in the United States that had the highest National Park Service visitation was the Southeast, with approximately 73 million visitors in 2024. This region includes the famous Great Smoky Mountains. The second-most visited region was the Pacific West, home to Yosemite National Park.

Trail data are used for many purposes including planning and management, mapping and condition assessment, routing and navigation, public information, emergency response, and research. A current, accurate representation of park trails is needed for national reporting and a variety of mapping requirements at all levels of the National Park Service and the general public. A National-level dataset allows the NPS to communicate a consistent and high-quality trails database to NPS staff, partners, visitors, and entities that produce maps and location-based services of park units. The collection, storage, and management of trail-related data are important components of everyday business activities in many Federal and State land-managing agencies, trail organizations, and businesses. From a management perspective, trail data must often mesh closely with other types of infrastructure, resource, and facility enterprise data. For the public using paper maps, the internet, GPS or other instrumentation, standard data formats enable users to consistently and predictably identify specific trails and a core set of corresponding information. Today, digital trail data are a necessity throughout a trail data management life-cycle, from trail planning through design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Automating, sharing, and leveraging trail data through this widely accepted standard can provide a variety of important benefits: Efficiency - creating and gathering trail data that are standardized and readily usable. Compatibility - compiling data from one project or discipline that can be compatible with other applications; Consistency - using the same standards, meshing data produced by one organization with that developed by another; Speed - hastening the availability of data through a reduction in duplicative efforts and lowered production costs (Applications can be developed more quickly and with more interoperability by using existing standards-compliant data); Conflict resolution - resolving conflicting trail data more easily if compliant to the same standards; Reliability - improving the quality of shared trail data by increasing the number of individuals who find and correct errors; and Reusability - allow maximum reuse across agencies and support objectives of EGovernment (E-Gov) initiatives and enterprise architecture.IRMA Data Store Reference

This PDF is a Data Description for the feature layer "Rock Falls (Yosemite) 1857-2024" representing rock falls and was developed for use by US Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service (NPS) staff to aid in risk assessment of rock fall hazards, rock slides, debris flows, and similar slope failures in Yosemite National Park and to serve as a base layer in a queryable database that will be made available to the public for locating and analyzing historic rock fall information spanning 167 years (1857-2024). This data is current as of December 31, 2024 and is maintained by Yosemite NP GIS personnel and Park Geologist.Inventories of rock falls and other types of landslides are valuable tools for improving understanding of these events. For example, detailed information on rock falls is critical for identifying mechanisms that trigger rock falls, for quantifying the susceptibility of different cliffs to rock falls, and for developing magnitude-frequency relations. Further, inventories can assist in quantifying the relative hazard and risk posed by these events over both short and long time scales. This data set represents the rock fall inventory database for Yosemite National Park, California. The inventory database documents 1707 events spanning the period 1857-2024. Rock falls, rock slides, and other forms of slope movement represent a series natural hazard in Yosemite National Park. Rock-fall hazard and risk are particularly relevant in Yosemite Valley, where glacially steepened granitic cliffs approach 1 km in height and where the majority of the approximately 4 million yearly visitors to the park congregate. In addition to damaging roads, trails, and other facilities, rock falls and other slope movement events have killed 18 people and injured at least 100 people in the park since the first documented rock fall in 1857.A report, "Historical Rock Falls in Yosemite National Park, California (1857-2020)", describes each of the organizational categories in the database, including event location, type of slope movement, date, volume, relative, size, probable trigger, impact to humans, narrative description, references, and environmental conditions. Previous versions of the database are available by accessing the following publications: Wieczorek et al. (1992), Wieczorek and Snyder (2004), and Stock et al. (2013).

This repository contains park and neighborhood data for Yosemite National Park (YOSE) in support of the NSF-funded project on Sustainability and Safety in the Pacific West Region National Parks.Internal park data include trail and roads within park boundary as well as yearly data on visitation and staffing for 2003-2013.Neighborhood data include census demographics, county crime, roads, parcel ownership, and land cover.Details provided in NPS PWR Crime Metadata.pdf.

The graph depicts the number of human-bear incidents in Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, there were 54 human-bear incidents in Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of 38.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 2.3 million visitors in 2020.

The graph depicts the number of medical assists in Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, there were 727 medical assists in Yosemite, down from the previous year's figure of 785.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 4.4 million visitors in 2019.

The graph depicts the number of search and rescue operations in Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, there were 214 search and rescue operations in Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of 112.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 2.3 million visitors in 2020.

The graph depicts the number of bears hit by vehicles in Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, there were 26 bears hit by vehicles in Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of 14.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 2.3 million visitors in 2020.

The graph depicts the number of motor vehicle accidents in Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, there were 2019 motor vehicle accidents in Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of 136.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 2.3 million visitors in 2020.