Navigate National Park Reservations: Your Ticket To Stress-Free Travel

Before we know we will be planning our summer vacations, and for a lot of us those plans include national parks. If you plan on visiting any of the following you will need a reservation. National Parks across the country are bringing back the time reservation system.

What does this actually mean for us travelers? It means we have to plan ahead. The timed reservations have been pretty popular across the nation in an effort to help with crowd control in some of the most beautiful vacation hot stops. The specific times requirements will vary from park to park and could require you to reserve your spot days or even months in advance.

Some parks have used a timed entry system to manage the overwhelming traffic. While others have used your reservations to help manage access to the parks. The following parks will be re introducing the reservation requirements starting April 1st of this year.

These are the parks that will be requiring reservations:

Arches National Park in Utah - Reservations are free but you have to play a $2 processing fee.

Glacier National Park - Our beautiful park will re-introduce a vehicle reservation system for the west side of the very popular Going-to-the Sun Road as well as the North Fork. The reservations will be required from June 13th to September 28th. The times you can reserve are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Starting on Feb. 12th. You can make your reservations for you and your family at Recreation.gov.

Rocky Mountain National Park- The Colorado park will start it's reservation system on May 23rd with two different timed permits being offered.

Yosemite National Park - The California Park will be enhancing their reservation system with "Peak Hours Plus". Basically it just means you can enter the park really early at 5 a.m on weekends April 13th - June 30th. You can choose from two different types of reservations. Full day or the half day.

Zion National Park - Utah makes the list again! They will require you to have reservations to visit and hike the very popular Angels Landing. It also looks like the park also holds a lottery to make said reservations.

They say the best way to stay in the know is to sign up for alerts at Recreation.gov