Skateboards2Scrapers wrote:I think they should do what they did in Zion in Yosemite, shuttle only transit yo
OMG, don't get me started.
Does anyone here remember the Yosemite General Management Plan (GMP) of 1980? The plan that was supposed to fix overcrowding and end commercialism in Yosemite? The plan in which roads were to be closed and removed, commerical buildings were to be closed and removed, and everyone (except people with confirmed campground reservations) were to park outside of the Valley and ride a shuttle into the Valley?
Commercial buildings were indeed closed. The Village gas station was closed, and replaced with a Curry Company video rental outlet.
The old fireplace room at Yosemite Lodge -- where we used to hang out on those cold winter nights -- was closed and turned into a junk souvenir store for tourists.
Roads weren't closed. Instead, several new parking lots were bull-dozed hap-hazardly out the forest to make room for more cars.
The plan was changed to turn El Cap Meadows into a giant parking lot.
Eventually the whole GMP was trashed and Yosemite is even more fucked up and commercial than it was in the 1970s when I was a Yosemite climbing bum.