Growing popularity of Cumberland Island National Seashore, which shimmers in the Atlantic on Georgia's largest barrier island, has driven the National Park Service there to craft a plan to, it hopes, better manage that visitation. The agency there has extended the public comment period on their Visitor Use Management Plan through December 30, providing interested parties additional time to review a document that, if approved, significantly evolves the seashore's nearly four-decades old general management plan.

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Yosemite National Park plans to reopen the Mariposa Grove Road to automobiles on Friday. The free visitor shuttle to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias will also resume service for the busy summer season on that day. When the shuttles are running, visitors should park at the South Entrance Parking area and ride the free shuttle two miles to the Lower Grove.