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Same Day Wilderness Permits

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Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby gritzner » Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:16 am

Hi. I have a very simple question. I know they give walk up wilderness permits starting at 11 am the day before you'd like to start your hike. My question is: what time should you get to the ranger station? Is right before 11 ok, or 10, or is this a "get there at sunrise to be first in line" kind of thing...?
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Re: Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby dan » Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:20 pm

At 8 am the office opens. If it's same day you show up when it opens at 8am. Wait in line earlier for the weekends (Friday-Sunday) and wait in line. This is for first-come, first-served permits.
At 10am unclaimed permits are made available.
At 11am first-come, first-served permits become available for the next day.
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Re: Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby Dave_Ayers » Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:51 am

It really depends on what trail head you are starting from. If its a trailhead like Lyell where the reservations are already full, getting to the priority permit station early is probably the way to go. If its a lesser used trailhead where there are still a bunch of slots open (see http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/u ... lheads.pdf), you may just want to stop at the most convenient station at your leisure, especially if you have options.
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Re: Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby jchapell » Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:19 am

dan wrote:At 8 am the office opens. If it's same day you show up when it opens at 8am. Wait in line earlier for the weekends (Friday-Sunday) and wait in line. This is for first-come, first-served permits.
At 10am unclaimed permits are made available.
At 11am first-come, first-served permits become available for the next day.



At the 11am day-before availability, are all walk-in permits made available to be reserved, or are some held back to be made available for the same-day at 8am?
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Re: Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby AlmostThere » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:01 am

jchapell wrote:

At the 11am day-before availability, are all walk-in permits made available to be reserved, or are some held back to be made available for the same-day at 8am?


There is no reserving - you walk in and get the permit. None are held back for the next day - you get what's left, if there's any. For really popular trailheads in the middle of the season on a Friday-Sunday? If you manage to get one the morning of, immediately go buy lottery tickets and head for Vegas, because your luck has just skyrocketed.

You do need to be there the morning of at 10 am to get those unclaimed previously-reserved permits - those are added to the pool of walk ins.
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Re: Same Day Wilderness Permits

Postby jchapell » Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:42 pm

AlmostThere wrote:
jchapell wrote:

At the 11am day-before availability, are all walk-in permits made available to be reserved, or are some held back to be made available for the same-day at 8am?


There is no reserving - you walk in and get the permit. None are held back for the next day - you get what's left, if there's any. For really popular trailheads in the middle of the season on a Friday-Sunday? If you manage to get one the morning of, immediately go buy lottery tickets and head for Vegas, because your luck has just skyrocketed.

You do need to be there the morning of at 10 am to get those unclaimed previously-reserved permits - those are added to the pool of walk ins.



Thanks AlmostThere. We are arriving later in the evening the night before we are hoping to start, but it sounds like standing in line the morning-of for Cathedral Lakes in June (granted on at Wed) may be slim picking...thankfully we have a couple flex days built into the trip just in case. Great info, as always.
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