Trump-Linked Developer Wants Private Road Through Yosemite — Critics Warn of Dangerous Precedent

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The Trump administration wants to carve a quarter-mile strip out of Yosemite and hand it to a Las Vegas private equity firm whose CEO cut checks to Trump's 2024 campaign.

A former Yosemite superintendent said it plainly. If it can happen at the crown jewel, it can happen at any of the 400-plus parks and historic sites in the country.

The firm, Kingsbarn Realty Capital, bought 80 acres just outside the park's western edge and now wants a private road running straight through protected ground into Yosemite, so it can build cabins, homes and shops and sell the view.

This exact scheme already died in court. A previous owner of that same land sued for the same access nearly two decades ago. The Sierra Club and the federal government fought him, and in 2012 a federal appeals court shut it down. Everyone thought it was buried.

Then Kingsbarn bought the property in 2024 for $4 million. Its CEO gave more than $4,000 to Trump. By spring 2025, Interior officials were quietly calling the deal a top priority.

Here's the trick. The Park Service is legally barred from selling off pieces of Yosemite. So instead of a sale, they're calling it a "land swap." The developer buys some other patch of California, hands it to the government, and walks off with a road through a national park. Same theft, different paperwork.

Kingsbarn even hired a lobbyist to call the private road "environmentally superior." A shorter driveway, they argue, means less pollution. That's the pitch. Pave through Yosemite to save the planet.

And the money to grease it? Interior floated using the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the account that exists to protect wild places, to help give one away.

Yosemite is not inventory. Half Dome, El Capitan, sequoias older than the country itself, none of it belongs to a private equity fund. It belongs to everyone and to no one, which is the entire point of a national park.

You do not get to buy a piece of the cathedral because you own the parking lot next door.

Two decades ago the courts said no. The public said no. Then a developer wrote a check to Trump, and suddenly the answer was yes.
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