New Actor: Kingsbarn Realty Proposes Yosemite Road

Kingsbarn Realty Capital moved to secure a private access road into Yosemite, working with National Park Service staff on a potential land swap to build a short connector from its 83‑acre property just outside the park’s western boundary to Highway 120. The company confirmed it is pursuing an exchange of park land to enable the road.

The plan centers on a roughly quarter‑mile strip inside the park that would be traded for private land, or on permission to build and use a road across park land. Kingsbarn says the road would shorten drives from its parcel, which now sits more than 10 miles from a park entrance, and cut emissions by reducing time on unpaved forest roads.

The Interior Department said there has been no political pressure on the project and that any exchange or access would undergo required environmental review and public notice. California leaders and conservation groups lined up against the idea, and a previous owner’s similar bid for a private road at this site was blocked in court.

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