Staffing cuts at Yosemite, above ... Brandon Bell/Getty Images Because of its warm Arizona climate, Grand Canyon National Park, which drew almost five million visitors last year, attracts crowds ...

Its main island is about 50 miles long and nine miles wide—19 times the size of Manhattan—and sees less than one percent of the average number of visitors to Yosemite National Park when it ...

It was the federal government’s first act to preserve a part of nature for the common good—a precursor of the National Park ... to Yosemite. Ralph Waldo Emerson said Watkins’ images of ...

With towering sequoias and colossal granite peaks, Yosemite National Park ... in getting Kings Canyon to become a national park in 1940, through his images from the Muir Trail that President ...

Carleton Watkins' Yosemite pictures brought him worldwide acclaim and were groundbreaking technically and artistically. He was arguably the most artistic American landscape photographer in the ...

Yosemite Exploration Center and Theater In this interactive exhibit hall, learn how Yosemite’s landscape formed, how people and wildlife have interacted with it, and how your national park continues .

Visitors will be able to learn about American-Indian history in the valley; head to the Pioneer Yosemite History Center to explore the role Chinese laborers played in the park’s early years; and ...

Watch Yosemite search and rescue workers demonstrate a life-saving water recovery mission from fast and freezing conditions ...

Thinking of visiting Yosemite During Your Next Trip Exploring National Parks in the United States? In this article, travel ...

Yosemite National Park is temporarily closing its backpackers campground in Yosemite Valley and relocating backpackers to Camp 4.