Every year from mid-to-late February, the setting sun hits Yosemite's Horsetail Fall ... enough water for the fall to flow. Although it will be possible to view the firefall between February ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. Every February, Horsetail Falls, which cascade down the famous El Capitan cliff in Yosemite National Park, become a fiery orange, illuminated by the setting sun.

The Yosemite Firefall is one of the most celebrated attractions in an already famous national park. The annual display of light illuminating Horsetail Falls on El Capitan draws in masses of people ...

The rare phenomenon happens when light hits a waterfall tumbling down El Capitan. The intensity of the brief annual display in February depends on the volume of water and the cloud cover. The ...

Marc Howard, left, glances one last time at Horsetail Fall in Yosemite Valley before he leaves ... for the seasonal display referred to as the Firefall had been trying unsuccessfully to capture ...

A "distress" signal hung on one of Yosemite National ... was hung upside-down just before "firefall," a period of time when the small waterfall Horsetail Fall "can glow orange when it's backlit ...

Demonstrators hung the American flag upside down over El Capitan in Yosemite National Park over the weekend. The display protested against the Trump administration’s firing of federal staff.

On Feb. 22, 2025, spectators at El Capitan’s Horsetail Fall ... the Firefall. They were greeted with the United States flag unfurled and displayed upside-down by employees at Yosemite National ...