Yosemite Valley is undeniably beautiful, but there's another California destination with views that are just as stunning but ...

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 ...

Yosemite is more crowded than usual this year, after a decision by the Trump administration to do away with summer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The ...

First-time visitors to Yosemite Valley gape in awe at the sheer granite wall of El Capitan and the neatly sliced face of Half Dome, aware, perhaps vaguely, that rain and glaciers must have taken a ...

Fear of flooding as Yosemite’s record-setting snowpack begins to melt has prompted officials to close a large swath of Yosemite National Park to the public starting Friday evening. The closures will ...

People travel from all over the world to witness the epic views of Yosemite Valley — and many tourists check out the region by riding a green dragon. “We do ask that you keep your arms and legs inside ...

The iconic, glacier-carved features of Yosemite Valley appeared sometime during the past 50 million years, when Sierra Nevada granite was first exposed, but geologists have not been able to establish ...

Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...

Reporting from YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Scott Gediman was explaining how the poolside and patio of the Majestic Yosemite Hotel would usually be full of politicians, dignitaries and others lapping in ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Traffic is hectic in and out of Yosemite Valley. The National Park Service advises travelers to arrive before 8 a.m. to avoid hourslong delays. – Catherine Parker Unless you are ...