The limited reservations requirement for Yosemite National Park announced by the Interior Department is a step in the right ...

A provocative new hypothesis suggests that Yosemite Valley was carved by an ancient volcano and a disappearing river, both of which have long since eroded away.Geologists have long debated why ...

Yosemite National Park was unsurprisingly busy on the first day of Memorial Day weekend, but park operations seemed smooth in an early test of a scaled-back and somewhat controversial reservation ...

We met Brian Hawkins, a Redondo Beach mechanical engineer-turned-videographer, in the near-empty lobby of the Yosemite Valley Lodge. It was just after 9 on a Tuesday night in late April.

Water is pictured descending down Upper Yosemite Fall in Yosemite Valley, as warming temperatures increased snowpack runoff, on April 28, 2023 Water is pictured descending down Upper Yosemite Fall ...

An unidentified park visitor raises his arms as the freezing spray from Lower Yosemite Fall drenches visitors Friday, April 28, 2023 in Yosemite Valley. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] What ...

In Yosemite National Park ... others are scheduled to open in mid-April). The team considered leveraging volunteers, adding cleaning duties to campground hosts, bringing seasonal workers in ...

"We kept stopping every few feet because the view was always better and better," said Ducey, 61, who visited Yosemite in early April. "It was an area of Yosemite I'd never been to before.

Courtesy of Yosemite National Park Hooker recommended ... Mariposa Grove Road, which was also closed for the season, usually reopens in April, according to the park website.

Yosemite officials required that visitors obtain an entrance reservation for their vehicles between April and October. A similar system was in place from 2020 to 2022 during the COVID pandemic.

Hikers make their way along the steps on the Mist Trail near Vernal Fall at Yosemite in late April, 2019. Craig Kohlruss [email protected] Hikers reach the vista point at Vernal Fall after ...

A delay in seasonal hiring following DOGE layoffs has left Yosemite National Park in California ... folks visiting the park each year between April and October. As a result, citing an internal ...