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LEAVE NO TRACE

Yosemite National Park is a national treasure and needs to be left the way you found it—leave only footprints and take only photographs, as the saying goes. You have likely chosen to visit Yosemite so you can unwind from daily life in a spectacular natural setting with limited signs of human visitation, and the next hiker wants to do exactly the same thing.

Most simply, leave no trace means that you take away all your trash, including toilet paper. Human garbage is the ugliest of sights in a wilderness area. But the phrase means more.

Leave no trace means:

  Leave the flowers attached to their roots. Nothing is sadder than watching a person yank off a woody stalk of rose spirea from atop Lembert Dome, clearly unaware of how long that branch took to grow, or seeing someone collect an enormous bouquet, only to cast it aside an hour later when it inevitably starts to wilt.

  Leave the rocks and pinecones for the next person to look at and enjoy. Let your child carry them for 5 minutes, but then place them back on the ground.