The gift shop in Yosemite National Park is actually open, despite Coulter’s assumption that we are not. The shutdown has had a small impact on us so far. Visitors can still enter the park, even ...

Click here for maps of Yosemite National Park. A version of this article originally appeared in the National Geographic book 100 Parks, 5000 Ideas . This article was updated August 8, 2022.

Abraham Lincoln had a real Outside mind-set. Even in the midst of the Civil War, 150 years ago, he signed the Yosemite Grant Act and created California's first state park, "the first protected ...