Yosemite’s Firefall! For just a few days each year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Horsetail Fall, making it glow like ...

A visitor pulls into parking specifically designated for Firefall viewing in Yosemite Valley Friday, Feb 9, 2024 in Yosemite ...

This year, the chaos surrounding Firefall — and resulting damage to the area of the park where visitors gather to behold it — has some conservation-minded Yosemite tour guides opting out ...

Two weather factors need to come together perfectly for the firefall to ignite. First, storms need to deliver rain and mountain snow to the Yosemite area leading up to Feb. 21 to feed Horsetail ...

YOSEMITE HUMS, all summer long ... mimicking an ethereal firefall, when the sun begins to set. So enchanting is this sight that entrance reservations are required over three February 2025 weekends ...

Every February, Yosemite National Park experiences a Firefall, a natural phenomenon that appears at Horsetail Fall (and one of the reasons winter is a great time to visit). When conditions align, the ...

Summer online reservations for Yosemite National Park, which hosts nearly 4 million annual visitors, have been postponed. But those who want to see Firefall must still make reservations.

Tourists refer to the natural phenomenon as the “firefall,” although park officials reserve that term for the days when people used to push bonfires off Glacier Point. According to Yosemite ...