The third designated U.S. National Park, Yosemite was first protected by the state of California before securing federal ...

Outside my window in Mariposa, California, in the Sierra foothills, I can see that the leaves have turned. Yosemite National Park and the surrounding mountains are an incredible year-round destination ...

Tioga Road is scheduled to reopen Friday, giving Yosemite visitors access to Tuolumne Meadows and the high country as Half ...

Yosemite National Park is filled with natural wonders, and for a few months each year, it’s one of the few places on Earth ...

Tioga Road, which runs through the park as Highway 120 and provides access to Tuolumne Meadows and the high country, opens at ...

The California red-legged frog, an iconic native species and the largest native frog in the American West—also once featured ...

Fear of flooding as Yosemite’s record-setting snowpack begins to melt has prompted officials to close a large swath of Yosemite National Park to the public starting Friday evening. The closures will ...

First-time visitors to Yosemite Valley gape in awe at the sheer granite wall of El Capitan and the neatly sliced face of Half Dome, aware, perhaps vaguely, that rain and glaciers must have taken a ...

Attendance at Yosemite National Park increased by 10.2% in 2019, newly released numbers show, and rangers are huddling with experts to devise ways to better manage traffic. The National Park Service’s ...

Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...

The iconic, glacier-carved features of Yosemite Valley appeared sometime during the past 50 million years, when Sierra Nevada granite was first exposed, but geologists have not been able to establish ...