Hikers navigate the Mist Trail against the backdrop of Vernal Fall in the Yosemite Valley in 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Three thousand people a day visit Mist Trail, which has views of ...

Winter visitors to Yosemite hoping to admire the snow and the park’s legendary firefall might be disappointed to find that a popular Yosemite Valley trail closed this week. “The trail between Happy ...

A wildfire burning near Yosemite Valley has prompted closure of some trails and caused poor air quality, park officials said. The Pika Fire, started by lightning on June 29, had burned 50 acres near ...

Yosemite is a dancing valley. The incredible landscape — massive cliffs and giant waterfalls — are the product of millions of years of motion as granite mounds pushed to the surface and glaciers and ...

With more than 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) of trails, Yosemite National Park offers visitors an almost endless array of hiking options that can both challenge you and take your breath away at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do California's most popular national park and a historic landmark in San Francisco have in common? In their 2025 study of ...

As the sixth most visited national park in 2024, Yosemite has a well-known congestion problem that should be of no surprise to anyone who visits. While timed entry reservations aim to help alleviate ...

Of the top five “most loved” hiking trails in the country, two of them are in California — and one of those is in Yosemite National Park. In Yosemite, Half Dome via the Muir Trail is the fifth “most ...