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Yosemite National Park is in the midst of its most expansive infrastructure upgrade in nearly a century. With funds flowing via the Great American Outdoors Act, campgrounds, hiking trails and roads around the park are being rebuilt and repaired in accordance with Yosemite’s long-term plans to continue hosting millions of visitors each year.
“These are once-in-a-generation kinds of projects that the park wouldn’t have the opportunity to repair,” said Frank Dean, president and CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy, a nonprofit that helps finance park improvements.
All this comes as park officials decide whether to again impose a reservation system during the high season to limit crowds.
In the next two to three years, the park will have renovated its largest campground, repaved one of its most popular thoroughfares and upgraded one of…