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Human Activity
The South Entrance.  According to the National Park Service, there were 3.7 million recreation visits to Yosemite National Park in 2022.

The National Park Service runs campgrounds around Yosemite National Park.  Obtaining a camping reservation in Yosemite is a challenge due to high demand, and many of the campgrounds are closed in the winter.

The museum is worth a visit.  One staffer was demonstrating and another was doing beadwork. >
Miwok Indians used strips of cedar bark to build shelters. >

Also worth a visit is the Ansel Adams Gallery, a concession which started in a tent as Best's Studio in 1902. >

The Great American Outdoors Act, passed in 2020, is providing billions in funding to address deferred maintenance needs in national parks around the country. >  According to a Yosemite National Park Infrastructure Fact Sheet for FY2022 there were $1.1 billion in deferred maintenance and repairs in the Park.  A list showed 39 projects in the current funding stream with a total estimated cost of $253.3 million. >  Many big and small projects are underway around the Valley.  Notably the long-time visitor center is closed, and a new visitor center is to open in a matter of days.  Indeed, a staffer was busy stocking shelves.  The new visitor center, near the Village Store, is closer to parking.

More construction in the Yosemite Village area.

Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center, formerly known as the LeConte Memorial Lodge, is the Sierra Club's home in Yosemite.  Built in 1903, the building was the original visitor center in the Valley.  It was re-named in 2016 "in a rejection of his [Joseph LeConte's] 19th-century writings on racial superiority."  It is open from May-September. >

Yosemite Valley Chapel was built in 1879 and moved the the current location in 1901. >
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