Wilderness permit process

claim · claim-yosemite-wilderness-permit-process-2026

Claims and evidence

Wilderness permit process

Advance lottery share percent
60
Advance lottery weeks
24
After hours summer pickup
No
Few if any unused start date permits
Yes
Required year round for
overnight Yosemite Wilderness travel
Reservation channel
Recreation.gov
Summer pickup requires business hours
Yes
Week ahead release days
7
Week ahead release time
07:00 Pacific
Week ahead share percent
40
Winter self registration available when stations closed
Yes
Evidence and sources (1)

Claim effective interval: 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31

Spatial scope IDs: scope-yosemite-wilderness

  1. Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details

    NPS publishes the Yosemite wilderness permit requirement, 60 percent 24-week lottery allocation, remaining 40 percent seven-day release, pickup constraints, and winter self-registration context.

    Publisher
    National Park Service
    Observer / attribution
    Not recorded
    Observed at
    Unknown
    Retrieved at
    2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

    Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.

    Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

Recorded observations

Browse observations separately (1)

NPS publishes the Yosemite wilderness permit requirement, 60 percent 24-week lottery allocation, remaining 40 percent seven-day release, pickup constraints, and winter self-registration context.

Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.

Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

Published record history

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