Here’s a century ago, when TP could have had zero visitors a day, on average. The figure 8 ring road was just a path back then. Some prefer this kind of wilderness:
Here’s how things looked a decade or so ago, with Twin Peaks firmly on a the second tier of the must visit locales, beneath Fishermans Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge, but pretty busy. This is facing south, to see overflow parking. If you ever saw it like this, then you’d know that the lots at Christmas Tree Point Road to the north were also full, with buses and cars queued up:
But then a few years back, “informal parking” as some call it got pared back so overflow parking moved north. This is Twin Peaks at capacity, but at a lower capacity. Buses were parked behind the trees, not too many on this day, for some reason:
And that takes us to 2020, fewer people due to cars and buses being banned in the daytime, photo via ___maryboy. This is looking south again, as the action is still migrating northwards…
…oh here it is, on a dreaded sunny day, TPB facing north, fewer ppl overall, no cars, buses, more scooters, big wheels:
So which do you prefer, having lots of tourists or fewer tourists? What we have now is fewer tourists, fewer Chinese grandmothers, some of whom never left their tourist bus. If you’re an Area White Male One-Percenter on the Wrong Side of Fifty, you might not even count a grandmother from China as a visitor, you might think TP has the most visitors ever, but you’d be wrong.
Anywho, those are the four phases of access to Twin Peaks over the years.
Looks like we’ll have a fifth phase coming soon…
