A third of the deaths at Lake Mead were related to drowning while a chunk of the fatalities at the Grand Canyon were tied to falls. At Yosemite, tourists trying to take selfies near waterfalls has ...

Yosemite Falls is actually three separate sections, Upper Yosemite Fall (1,430 feet), the middle cascades (675 feet), and Lower Yosemite Fall (320 feet). Peak flow for Yosemite Falls occurs ...

of falls of water...are indescribably unique and beautiful,” the Times reported. The great landscape painter Albert Bierstadt promptly headed to Yosemite. Ralph Waldo Emerson said Watkins’ i ...

In Yosemite National Park, where the hiring of seasonal employees was delayed by the Donald Trump administration, a resulting ...

Resting in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park offers peak tranquility and opportunities to revel in the ...

This closure also means that people going to and from Yosemite National Park should use ... Then, on Thursday, more rocks started to fall when crews were out evaluating the slide, Caltrans says.

Park officials say visitors can make reservations now for this weekend and that will continue one week in advance throughout ...

Yosemite National Park has been dealing with overcrowding issues for decades, according to National Park Service officials. In 1980, Yosemite welcomed 2 million visitors. By 1996, that number had ...

Timken Museum revisits Bierstadt’s 19th-century masterpiece “Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall” through Monkman’s 2012 work, “The Fourth World” ...

The slide closed about two miles of Highway 140 in both directions between Yosemite Cedar Lodge and ... causing the unstable geology to fall down on the roadway below. “For safety reasons ...

After several recent rains, a main highway into Yosemite National Park is closed ... the park is closed after wet weather caused rocks to fall onto the road in a narrow canyon, SFGate reported.