Project overview: Refresh the outdated, 28-year-old education and orientation signage along Glacier Point Road with design and installation of 13 new signs at trailheads, parking lots, and roadways.

How your support helps: Glacier Point attracts close to a million visitors each year for sightseeing and backcountry adventures. Over the past two decades, Conservancy donors have helped install new exhibits in the Geology Hut, maintain the legendary trails along the roadway and down into the Valley, and so much more to revitalize the visitor experience along Glacier Point Road. 

With updated roadways, trails, buildings, and viewpoints, it’s time to redesign the interpretive and directional signage at Glacier Point for the first time since they were installed 28 years ago.  

Alongside the National Park Service and Conservancy donors, outdated signs that can threaten visitors’ understanding of Glacier Point and cause confusion surrounding trail routes will be removed. In their place, we will install new educational panels, trailhead markers, and directional signs — including at the Taft Point and Sentinel Dome trailheads — to enhance visitor enjoyment and safety in this area for years to come. 

This year: In 2026, the National Park Service (NPS) will refresh interpretation and directional signage along Glacier Point Road. This project will include the design of 13 signs — six educational signs, one safety panel, and six trailhead signs (at Sentinel Dome, Taft Point, Mono, Ostrander, and McGurk Meadow). With your support, the NPS will also hire a Participatory Exhibit Specialist intern to assist with signage design and development, and to ensure that all signs are installed in appropriate locations along waysides and roadways by late 2027.

Project partner: Yosemite National Park

Photo credit: Brittany Colt