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 ...

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 ...

Three thousand people a day visit Mist Trail, which has views of two majestic waterfalls and is arguably the most popular hike at Yosemite National Park. Mist Trail is now going to get a $5-million ...

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 ...

Winter visitors to Yosemite hoping to admire the snow and the park’s legendary firefall might be disappointed to find that a popular Yosemite Valley trail closed this week. “The trail between Happy ...

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 ...