Temporary weight restrictions on the road have been lifted. All entrances to Yosemite National Park are open 24 hours a day, weather permitting. Reservations are not needed to enter the park in 1998. Private vehicles are allowed to drive into and around Yosemite Valley. Do not leave food in your car.
Bears can smell food in and break into vehicle trunks.
Visitors need to store all food, ice chests, and odorous items in metal food storage boxes or hard-sided cabins. Once bears become conditioned to human food, they become unnaturally aggressive and must be killed. The weather in the park has ranged from mostly sunny to overcast. In Tuolumne Meadows, daytime highs have been in the 50s, with overnight lows near freezing. Camping is permitted only in designated campgrounds.