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quibbles: There are also back country fees and the back country and Donohue are access limited, though not by lottery.
by tdaltonc 7y ago
quibbles: There are also back country fees and the back country and Donohue are access limited, though not by lottery.
- gamblor956 7y agoThe back country fees are for permits for camping in the back country. They are just a different kind of camping fee. If you are just day hiking you don't need to pay a fee. The back country is not limited by anything other than the amount of work involved in reaching the back country, which varies from as little as 2-3 miles in the High Sierra portion of Yosemite or 5-6 miles from the Valley. The Donohue restrictions were intended for the primary purpose of maintaining access to back country trails for Yosemite visitors, who were being crowded out by JMT hikers using non-traditional trailheads to get around capacity limits on the traditional JMT trailheads in Yosemite (i.e., Happy Isles).