To be fair, Tuolumne and the Tioga Road are already in their off-season where no overnight parking or camping is allowed and all services are closed. Anyone up

To be fair, Tuolumne and the Tioga Road are already in their off-season where no overnight parking or camping is allowed and all services are closed. Anyone up there has to be on a day trip, unless they have a wilderness permit and either packed in a long distance or had someone drop them at a trailhead up there. During the summer months, Tioga Road can be clogged like an amusement park too. Also, while there is an entrance fee that applies per vehicle and gives you access for 7 days, there is also an NPS annual pass which costs about $100 and lets you enter every National Park and National Monument. So, you never have to pay more than approximately three Yosemite entrance fees in a single year, no matter how often you visit. When I was a kid, we also had a "Golden Eagle" pass which combined the NPS annual pass with similar unlimited access to all California State Parks. I haven't seen that option in a long time though.