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Yosemite National Park
Wilderness Permits Reservation Window

Wilderness permit reservations are available 24 weeks (168 days) in advance. The table below indicates which day you can first make a reservation for specific dates.

The reservation office is not staffed on weekends or holidays (if making a reservation by phone, call the first business day after your date becomes available).

The reservation office opens for the season on November 28, 2011 and will remain open through September 2012.

 
You may fax your request beginning
at 5 pm Pacific time a day prior to the date
listed below (you can change the clock
to the right to Pacific time to see what time
it is here). If you fax your request
by 7:30 am on the day below, your
request will be included in the daily
lottery. (For weekend reservation
dates, you can fax beginning 5 pm
on Friday.)




First day to
make a
reservation

 For
this
date
Nov 28
 May 1- 14
Nov 29 May 15
Nov 30 May 16
Dec 1 May 17
Dec 2 May 18
Dec 3 May 19
Dec 4 May 20
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Upper Yosemite Fall with spring runoff

Did You Know?
Yosemite Falls is fed mostly by snowmelt. Peak flow usually happens in late May, but by August, Yosemite Falls is often dry. It begins flowing again a few months later, after winter snows arrive.
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Last Updated: November 22, 2011 at 11:56 MST