Yosemite National Park is scraping its reservation system for visitors next year and welcoming the public back with improved campgrounds and roads, park officials announced Nov. 15. With reservations, the park was able to limit the number of visitors during construction projects and the pandemic. Pandemic restrictions have been lifted and road and campground projects…

Say that you arrive at a hotel where you have a firm reservation — maybe even prepaid — only to have the desk clerk tell you the hotel is full and can’t honor your reservation. This can happen for several reasons, generally because the hotel overbooked, some guests stayed longer than expected, or somebody bought…