> This month is typically a busy month in Yosemite: Of the almost 4.6 million tourists that visited the valley in 2019, about 308,000 came during April.
"This month is typically a busy one: less than 1/12th of the number of annual visitors." ️
The total is skewed by visitors in July, August, and September. During that 3 month period, approximately 50% of total annual visitors visit the Park, with July and August each routinely exceeding 600k visitors/month.
Traffic jams getting into and out of the park in July and August can last for 4-5 hours and extend nearly 30 miles.
yeah, this sentence jumped out on me too, making the whole article so less convincing. those schools of journalism should really include basic math in their core corriculum.
April is the median, but below the mean, which is skewed by the visitor totals in July and August, the busiest months of the year, at more than 600k visitors each. Knowledge of basic math is very important before you accuse a journalist of lacking basic math skills.
Left out of the math discussion though is that Tuolumne Meadows is usually still closed in April to activities and also frequently to through traffic, meaning that all 300,000 visitors are bound for Yosemite Valley, which represents about 2% of the total area of Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite definitely feels busy in April, even if it feels busier in the Summer and Fall.
"This month is typically a busy one: less than 1/12th of the number of annual visitors." ️