Yosemite National Park News

Yosemite National Park in central California is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. It's not easy to get to, but once you're there you don't want to leave.

Mike Patterson steered a motorboat across Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, about 300 feet above a valley floor that was hallowed ground to John Muir.

The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, Calif., is seen in this undated photo provided by the The Bancroft Library at the University of California in Berkeley.

A big city problem has settled in a big way in Sequoia National Park, home of the giant sequoias.

If you've ever had a problem finding a parking space in Yosemite National Park, don't worry; you're not alone.

This past Friday, just in time for the busy Memorial Day Weekend, the climbing cables were put in place on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park , opening the door for hikers and backpackers to hit the iconic trail.

I know that's what many of you would say if you read any of the headlines on Thursday from the great city of San Francisco.

The White Wolf Lodge and its outlying tent cabins are scheduled to open for the summer in Yosemite National Park on June 8. Photos courtesy of DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite.

Yosemite National Park is preparing for a busy Memorial Day weekend. And rangers are asking visitors to stay out of the Merced River.

The cables allowing hikers to summit Half Dome in Yosemite National Park will be in place and open for the season today, weather permitting.

When you're living in a city it's easy to get caught up in human creations. Almost everything I see and touch all day has been concocted by humans -- the streets, the buildings, the machine I'm typing these words on.

The cables allowing access for hikers to the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park will be in place and open for the season on Friday, May 25th, weather permitting.

Traditional rainbows provide extraordinary photographic opportunities, but there are other ways and places to capture the color of rainbows without a drop of rain.

The cables allowing access for hikers to the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park will be in place and open for the season on Friday, May 25, weather permitting.

John Paul Chaufan Field, a 22-year-old college student, is seen in this handout photo released by the Yosemite National Park on May 21, 2012.

Just in time for spring snowmelt: a Web cam pointed at one of Yosemite National Park's main attractions, the soaring 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls.

Immersion Excursion Specialty Tram Tours, introduced at Yosemite National Park last year to delve deeper into popular park features, crank up again on Memorial Day.

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Yosemite Falls is a prime attraction for visitors to Yosemite National Park , and now a new webcam allows anyone with an internet connection to enjoy a view of the falls.

Cars fill a parking lot near Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Members of the military will now be eligible for a pass providing free access to national parks and recreational sites across the United States.