Entering Zion by shuttle vs. by car for a group of 5 people

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Cars are always allowed into the park up at least until the tunnel (people staying at the lodge can go farther to park there), because highway 9 runs through the park. This allows parking at the visitor's center and the museum, as well as some of the campgrounds, I believe. As you say, these spots will fill up very early, depending on time of year. If you attempt to find parking there, you will enter as a single vehicle and your annual pass should permit you free entry.

The Springdale shuttle takes you to near the edge of the park, where there is a pedestrian bridge that takes you to a ticket office. In theory there your pass entitles you to enter with 3 other people, in which case you'd have to pay $20 for the remaining person. In practice I would expect that it's quite likely that the agent there would allow your group in on one pass, but that would be dependent on the particular agent.

(In actual practice, I've accidentally entered the park without showing a pass before by taking the wrong trail in when walking from Springdale, although this is hard to do on accident from the shuttle stop. In addition, I've also walked in when nobody was manning the ticket booth.)

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