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I'm Jason Epperson and it's time for the latest in National Park News.

At the end of each month we run down all the news stories that affected National Parks

and this month is no different, but a lot of the announcements made in December by the National Park Service will affect

2023 travel, especially when it comes to those experimental timed entries into certain national parks.

So today we'll cover which parks will require entry

reservations again in 2023 plus there have been some increases in park funding

and the size of certain parks is increased and we'll also let you know which

sites you might expect to become national parks over the course of the next year.

But first up, that reserved entry.

As parks have become more and more busy with tourists, the National Park Service has had to put in place ways of limiting entry into certain parks often through these timed reservations that you book on recreation.gov.

Rocky Mountain National Parks timed entry system. that you book on recreation.gov.

Rocky Mountain National Parks Time Entry System will be back for the fourth year in a row,

beginning on May 26. But there are some changes. The system is similar to the one used in 2022 with two types of

reservations available, one for the Bear Lake Road Corridor which includes

access to the rest of the park and the second being for the park excluding the Bear lake road corridor but covers everywhere else.

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