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Cost To Hike Half Dome In Yosemite National Park Inching Upwards

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It will cost you a bit more to hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park this year/NPS

A walk through the woods, and then up the slick shoulder of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, is getting a tad bit more expensive.

Permits for making the trek to the top for an eagle eye view of the Yosemite Valley down below and Clouds Rest far off to the east will cost $10 this year, and that's on top of the $10 application fee. Depending on whether you went online in the past or called to land a permit, the $20 fee this year is an increase of between $5.50 and $7.50

Yosemite staff attribute the slight increase to "contractor costs." 

The Half Dome cables are currently down, but are scheduled to be installed at the end of May. Due to heavy snow pack and weather conditions, cable installation may be delayed, the park reports. The new Half Dome permit fees of a $10 application fee and a $10 permit fee will be charged beginning with the 2017 daily lotteries that will open once the cables are installed for the 2017 summer season. If cable installation is delayed, permit fees will be refunded to those who purchased permits through the preseason lottery.

Day use permits are required to ascend the Half Dome cables 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These permits are only available online through the daily lottery operated by recreation.gov. To apply for a daily lottery permit, applications are accepted from 12:01 a.m. to 1 p.m. two days in advance of the intended hiking date.

Day use permits cannot be obtained in person through any office in Yosemite National Park. Permit applicants must use their legal name when applying for a permit and a matching government-issued ID is required at the permit check point.

Overnight use permits are available through the Yosemite National Park Wilderness Center. For more information, visit this page.

For updated 24-hour road and weather conditions for Yosemite National Park, please call 209-372-0200, press 1 and press 1 again.

Comments

Is rediculus. To have to go trough lottery tickets.  If you are paying for it.


It's ridiculous period.  Do you know what it costs to climb Denali?  The same for taxpaying US citizens as for a Nepali Sherpa.  If you or I climb in the Himalaya, we have to pay disproportionate amounts as a foreigner. And that is the way it is around the world.  Some places charge US climbers in the form of entrance taxes.


Areceli - Have you climbed Half Dome? If you had, you would know how crowded - even dangerous - it is with a fee and permit.  $20 is nothing for the experience and limiting with a lottery is the only way to keep it safe and enjoyable, other than raising the fee to $100.  


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