Yosemite is one of the most visited national parks in the U.S. Bigger than the size of Rhode Island, it hosts diverse ...

Yosemite National Park is one of our most iconic national parks, not to mention one of the most popular, with 4 million ...

While a small-scale project (e.g., Newlands Project) took less than 3 years to build, grand-scale projects could continue for 20 years (e.g., Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct), while others could take at least ...

We had barely gotten rolling when we saw a sign for the Pulgas Temple, but had no idea that we were actually at the terminus for the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. We parked and followed a path ...

The aqueduct project to bring fresh water 160 miles — from the Sierra Nevada’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to the Bay Area — took 24 years to build and cost $102 million and the lives of dozens of ...

That includes Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite National Park, which will likely reach capacity if we get more storms this winter. Visitors might still need chains to get down Evergreen Road this time of ...

Southern California later built another aqueduct to tap a small supply of Colorado River ... San Francisco has its own dam on the Tuolumne River that floods the Hetch Hetchy Valley near Yosemite ...

the San Francisco Water Department in 1938 erected this beautiful stone structure and reflecting pool surrounded by cypress trees to commemorate the 1934 completion of the 167-mile Hetch Hetchy ...

One of the four engineers of the Catskills system, John Freeman, designed the Hetch Hetchy Dam, San Francisco’s reservoir in Yosemite, as well as the L.A. aqueduct, which took back lands that ...

Los Angeles bullied its way into the Owens Valley in the 1910s, eventually siphoning the valley’s water through an aqueduct. A few years later, San Francisco reached into Hetch Hetchy Valley for a ...