• View of Half Dome and Washington Column in Yosemite Valley

    Yosemite

    National Park California

Road Construction

Road work ahead
The National Park Service (NPS) will be making repairs on numerous roadways throughout the park in 2012. A Yosemite NPS Project Manager is onsite to complete regular inspections and to ensure that the work complies with our environmental requirements, as well as the goals and mission of the National Park Service. An overview of each project is listed below along with an estimated schedule of delays for each. For questions, please email.
 
2012 Projects - Road Preservation Work

Wawona Road

Starting July 30, crews will be working intermittently day and night with some crack sealing and patch work on Wawona Road and on the secondary roads/parking areas in Wawona (Chilnualna Falls Road--Forest Drive).

On August 2, crews will be completing a small test strip of pavement on Wawona Road between Wawona and South Entrance, with up to 15-minute delays from 8:00pm to 6:00am.  

Starting August 6, the pavement preservation crews will begin the main travel-way paving of the Wawona Road, with 15-minute delays and controlled traffic using flaggers and a pilot car operation. Work will occur at night between 8:00pm - 6:00am. The paving operation will begin approximately 1/2 mile north of the South Entrance Station. Each night the paving operation will head north, until they reach Yosemite Valley, which is expected to last through the end of August 2012. Therefore, at nights there will be many asphalt trucks traveling on Wawona Road and CA State Route 41 between Fresno and Yosemite Valley, so please be patient as you are traveling along this route.

Big Oak Flat Road

Water lines are being replaced from the Crane Flat Gas Station to the Crane Flat Water Tank. Expect delays up to 20 minutes at the Big Oak Flat/Tioga Road intersection through mid-November.

To find out more information about the current status of all park roads, call the park information line at
209/372-0200 (then press 1, and 1 again).

Did You Know?

Sign language interpreter

Yosemite has a full-time sign language interpreter in the park every summer? The Yosemite Deaf Services Program began in 1979 and provides a variety of services to make sure the park is accessible for all of Yosemite's D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors.