Viral videos reveal crowds, lines and chaos as the new scenery at Yosemite National Park. This comes as Yosemite and other national parks dropped their entry reservations for 2026 and the decision is backfiring. Yosemite’s monthly visitation numbers in March increased about 45% from the year before. One visitor described a recent trip as having to deal with hour-long waits, cars parked dangerously along the side of the road and “wall-to-wall” crowds of people “tripping over each other" and saying that the trip “felt like a day at Disneyland."