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With no park ranger to greet visitors, cars breeze through the Arch Rock Entrance to Yosemite National Park. Photo by Tom Lyden
For generations of visitors to Yosemite National Park, talking to the park ranger at the entrance gate, in their familiar khaki gray and forest green, is a tradition: Exchange some pleasantries, buy a pass, get a map and go on your way.
But increasingly, when you pull up to the gate house, like this reporter did last week, it’s empty. No one is on duty.
The Arch Rock E…
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Yosemite National Park Generates Concern As New Signs At Entrances Show Employees Were Right All Along
U.S. national parks have been under growing pressure over the past year. After around 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees were let go at the beginning of 2025, many parks were left operating with skeleton crews, while remaining staff dealt with low morale and insiders warned the agency was in one of its worst states in years.
Unfortunately, the system still hasn't recovered. Ongoing staffing shortages and possible budget cuts in 2027 continue to raise concerns among NPS employees. Most recently, new signs at Yosemite National Park entrances are making these challenges more visible to visitors.
While NPS spokespeople have claimed there’s no cause for alarm, employees say the signs are a direct result of the same challenges that have been intensifying since last year, suggesting that they were indeed right all along when they raised the issue multiple times in 2025.
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