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Updates Coming On Two Important Yosemite National Park Projects

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By NPT Staff - May 3rd, 2019
Yosemite National Park staff hope to begin a parking relocation project in 2020 to protect Tuolumne Meadows/NPS file

Yosemite National Park staff hope to begin a parking relocation project in 2020 to protect Tuolumne Meadows/NPS file

Two major projects at Yosemite National Park, the Big Oak Flat Welcome Center and the Tuolumne Meadows Parking Relocation projects, will be discussed on May 9 in Groveland, California.

Park staff will be on hand to discuss implementation and operations for both projects, which will begin construction in 2020.

The meeting will take place from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Park staff will give presentations from 3–3:45 p.m. followed by an open house discussion from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 pm.

The Big Oak Flat Welcome Center project is expected to improve the visitor experience, address deferred maintenance, and improve public safety. This project will also increase efficiency through construction of a new welcome center, comfort station, and information plaza. Additionally, the project will improve visitor parking through the construction of a parking lot, and extend the sewer line that connects to the Hodgdon Meadow septic system.

The park approved a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Big Oak Flat Welcome Center project in February after release of an environmental assessment for public comment in November 2018.

Park staff will also provide information on the Tuolumne Meadows Parking Relocation Project, which is intended to move shoulder parking along the Tioga Road at Tuolumne Meadows (near the Visitor Center and Cathedral Lake trailhead) into expanded parking areas within nearby upland areas. The current roadside parking negatively impacts the visitor experience by blocking views of Tuolumne Meadows. Additionally, vehicles encroach into meadow and riparian areas, negatively impacting critical meadow habitat.

The new expanded parking areas will accommodate the same number of parking spaces removed from the roadside along with regional transit buses and other oversized vehicles. The Tuolumne Meadows Parking Relocation Project was approved as part of the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement / Record of Decision (2014).

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