Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The water of Horsetail Fall turns the golden color of the sunset during the annual Firefall phenomenon in Yosemite National Park ...

Yosemite looks simple in photos, but a first visit can get complicated fast. From packed parking and seasonal road limits to ...

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 ...

Yosemite looked very different one hundred million years ago. Towering volcanoes existed here then making up a vast mountain chain similar to the modern Andes Mountains in South America. Deep beneath ...

For the first time since the blaze broke out in a neighboring forest two weeks ago, smoke obscured Yosemite Valley, home to the park's most popular landmarks, spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. "I'm in ...

Thomas Ayres' drawings changed the course of Yosemite history.

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 ...

Yosemite is one of the most visited national parks in the U.S. Bigger than the size of Rhode Island, it hosts diverse landscapes with icons like alpine valleys, sequoia groves, and the granite cliffs ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- A forecast of flooding has led to most of Yosemite Valley to close starting Friday, April 28, according to a Facebook post by Yosemite National Park. The closure is expected ...

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 ...

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 ...