The Merced River, which flows through the middle of Yosemite Valley, is rising and is expected to peak Monday at about 2 or 3 feet above its flood stage. At that level, vehicles won’t be able to ...

“Anyone with reservations in Yosemite Valley,” park officials ... towering cliffs surrounding the glacially carved valley as the Merced River expanded the boundaries of its floodplain below.

this river would have increased the flow to the modern day Merced River and Tenaya Creek, which would have then had enough power to slice through the Sierras to create Yosemite Valley and nearby ...

The Merced area was expected to be sunny on Tuesday, with a high temperature near 90 degrees and winds around 5 mph, ...

Then in 1907, the journey became much more comfortable when the Yosemite Valley Railroad opened. Investors built tracks along the Merced River, across the river from where Highway 140 is today.

Credit: NPS/Public Domain. The second mystery is that in California's Central Valley, where the Merced River spills out of Yosemite and creates a fan-shaped layer of sediment it has carried from ...