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The national parks that were impossible to book last summer are wide open right now

  • Three popular national parks—Yosemite, Glacier, and Arches—have removed their vehicle reservation systems in 2026, ending years of controlled booking windows for visitors.
  • The National Park Service Office of Communications announced in February that these parks rolled back their reservation requirements for 2026.
  • Yosemite National Park required vehicle reservations during peak hours in 2024 and 2025 but dropped the system entirely for 2026 after evaluating traffic and visitor use.
  • Glacier and Arches National Parks also removed their reservation systems in 2026, allowing visitors to enter without timed or vehicle reservations during operating hours.
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The national parks that were impossible to book last summer are wide open right now

Three high-visitation national parks dropped the reservation systems that kept summer visitors in a booking-window lottery for years, and the timing could not be better. ... Read moreThe post The national parks that were impossible to book last summer are…

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ABC FOX Montana broke the news in Missoula, United States on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.
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