According to a Wednesday Facebook post from the park, a large rockfall that occurred on April 15 near Nevada Fall at the rear of Yosemite Valley sent “hundreds of boulders” onto the John Muir ...

The next time you gaze at the sheer granite cliffs of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan or marvel at the trees in the Mariposa Grove, you can thank the quiet persuasion of John Muir. Without him ...

In 1851, the first white men entered the Yosemite ... of a national park, soldiers built the first trail to Mount Whitney and erected protective fences around the big trees. John Muir was ...