A Yosemite campground is open after a 4-year $9.8M renovation

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A campground successful Yosemite is yet unfastened pursuing a four-year $9.8 cardinal renovation, officials with Yosemite National Park said.

Yosemite Park officials announced successful June that the park's fashionable Crane Flat Campground underwent a modernization. They accidental that the parkland had not seen upgrades since 1962.

The $9.8 cardinal concern was from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), passed successful 2020. It provides backing to amended infrastructure and grow recreation opportunities successful nationalist parks and different nationalist lands.

Park officials accidental that implicit the years, the campground has hosted much than 100,000 visitors a twelvemonth and has go rundown.

According to parkland officials, the picnic tables and occurrence rings were rusty and the campy signs had faded. They accidental the campsites needed to beryllium amended defined.

The campsite was unopen down successful 2020, soon aft the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park

Park officials accidental that the task leader, Matt Outhier, and his unit created level crushed for much than 160 campsites and built and installed structure pads, picnic tables, occurrence rings, and bear-proof retention lockers for each site.

According to officials, 8 campsites are present afloat accessible with elevated carnivore boxes, accessible, double-walled occurrence rings, and navigable paths that link to comfortableness stations.

“I anticipation radical travel backmost and announcement however antithetic it is now," Outhier said. "This is different illustration of however the Great American Outdoors Act is transforming parks crossed the country.”