These National Parks Are Dropping Reservation Requirements For Fall/Winter 2024

If you’ve been hoping to visit some of the below parks but didn’t want to deal with securing a timed, and in some cases paid, reservation for entry, you’re in luck. With fall comes the end of reservation systems at most, though not all, national park properties. Below is a list of the parks that drop their entrance reservation system in the coming weeks. But, as always, check the individual website of any park you plan to visit before you head out, just to be sure. And, if you plan to camp, you’ll need reservations for that. It’s also important to remember you’ll still need to pay an entrance fee at the park boundary.

Acadia National Park

Reservation requirements for the park’s popular Cadillac Summit Road end October 27.

Arches National Park

Despite not being a particularly heavily visited park, Arches’ infrastucture can’t handle too many visitors at once, hence the reservations. The need for those ends on October 31. 

Glacier National Park

Glacier requires reservations at three areas within the park: The Going-to-the-Sun Road West Entrance; North Fork; and Many Glacier. All three opened with no reservations as of September 8.

Mount Rainier National Park

The park’s Paradise and Sunrise Corridors ended reservation requirements on September 2.

Rocky Mountain National Park

The park system’s fourth most-visited property drops advance reservation requirements on October 20.

Yosemite National Park

Reservations to get into the iconic park differ throughout the year, more than most. As of now, no reservations are required during the week. As of October 27, reservations aren’t needed on the weekends, either. But in February, the reservation system returns on the weekends of February 10-11, February 17-19, and February 24-25, as visitors pour in to watch Horsetail Falls become Firefall.