The National Park Service is closing most of Yosemite Valley, as the Merced River is expected to reach flood levels Thursday night. The closure starts at 10 a.m. Friday, the park service said Tuesday.

Francis Flora Bond Palmer, “Yosemite Valley – California: The Bridal Veil Fall” (1866), handcolored lithograph (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) NEW HAVEN — At a time when the legacy of ...

While you could spend a lifetime exploring the backcountry trails, granite faces and towering groves of Yosemite National Park, most of us don't have more than a weekend set aside to explore this ...

Yosemite has more domes than any other place on the planet. Its most famous, Half Dome can be seen from Yosemite Valley and Glacier Point inside the park. It is 8,800 feet of towering granite and a ...

California has had a hell of a year, with a series of storms that have caused record flooding and forced thousands to evacuate their homes. Many have struggled, but part of the state has experienced a ...

Yosemite National Park is gorgeous. That was my first impression when I watched the pilot of Untamed, the Netflix drama that follows a ranger investigating a murder inside one of the most iconic parks ...

A guy from Germany spent eight months planning his proposal to his girlfriend at California’s Yosemite National Park. What he didn’t plan on was severe storms moving into Yosemite Valley as he got ...

Yosemite looked very different one hundred million years ago. Towering volcanoes existed here then making up a vast mountain chain similar to the modern Andes Mountains in South America. Deep beneath ...