Napa is just over an hour from San Francisco, and although not strictly on the way to Yosemite, it makes an excellent detour ...

Mammoth Lakes, nestled in California's Eastern Sierra, is a haven of natural beauty, boasting rugged peaks and pristine lakes ...

The largest county in the 209 is Tuolumne with 2,235 square miles followed by Merced with 1,979 square miles, Stanislaus with ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional ...

California’s iconic trees are so well appreciated that three national parks are named after them: Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua ...

The hike recalls the famous camping trip in 1903 when John Muir took Theodore Roosevelt to see the Grizzly Giant in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove. That hike initiated the birth of several national ...

Mariposa Grove Trail: 7.0-mile hike (11.3 km) round trip- includes Grizzly Giant Loop trees, Wawona Point, and portions of the upper grove. (+ The Galen Clark Tree via a short spur) ...

It's not just trees and hiking. ... President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation protecting the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley for 'public use, resort, and recreation' in 1864, ...

The state park system was born in 1862 with California’s Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias; it was ten years later that Yellowstone, mostly in Wyoming, became the first ...