A wildfire burning near Yosemite Valley has prompted closure of some trails and caused poor air quality, park officials said. The Pika Fire, started by lightning on June 29, had burned 50 acres near ...

Yosemite is one of those parks where the scenery can feel huge even when the human traffic does not. The National Park Service says more than four million people visit each year, and from spring ...

A popular Yosemite National Park trail was closed this week due to a rockfall. Travel on the trail between Happy Isles and the Vernal Fall Footbridge is prohibited “until further notice,” park ...

Yosemite is a dancing valley. The incredible landscape — massive cliffs and giant waterfalls — are the product of millions of years of motion as granite mounds pushed to the surface and glaciers and ...

Outside my window in Mariposa, California, in the Sierra foothills, I can see that the leaves have turned. Yosemite National Park and the surrounding mountains are an incredible year-round destination ...