Yosemite Valley News

Our beautiful Yosemite Valley was formed, in part, by glaciers. Half dome used to be a whole dome, the missing half carried away by a river of ice.

The 1,700 acres in the mountains of northeastern Sonoma County became a nature preserve earlier this year when the estate of Shirley and Jim Modini, who had lived and loved the ranch for the 60 years of their marriage, was settled.

Yosemite Valley can feel like a bustling town at times, with traffic jams, wailing emergency sirens, and tour buses and tractor-trailer trucks snaking along the roads.

Yosemite National Park's Glacier Point Road is scheduled to open for the season at noon today, park officials announced Wednesday.

Editor's note: The following is a portion of a letter sent to Yosemite National Park superintendent Don Neubaucher, by Max Rodriguez, chairman of the Madera County Board of Supervisors regarding the Merced River Management Plan.

The road to one of the most beautiful lookout points in Yosemite National Park is set to open after the last of the snow has cleared.

TUOLUMNE MEADOWS to SONORA PASS: This 65.8-mile section travels the remote regions of Yosemite.

Tuesday is the final day to comment on a draft plan for managing the Yosemite Valley in the best interests of the Merced River.

Yosemite Chapel in Yosemite National Park in California is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

As a former Yosemite National Park ranger who spent nearly four decades protecting and preserving one of our country's greatest natural gems, I have seen how this park has created life-long memories for visitors, whether they visited the remote back-country wilderness or the easily accessible Yosemite Valley.

The vista of Yosemite Valley stunned me: a majestic waterfall, soaring granite, and a winding river flowing through an endless stretch of pine trees.

Aron Grunner graduated from Valley Middle School, CHS and SDSU. Aron had a degree in communications and loved the outdoors.

The Investigative Unit's Elyce Kirchner uncovers citations and arrests for drug-related issues in Yosemite climbing over the past five years and compares those numbers to other popular national parks.

Sierra Club founder and nature writer John Muir spent years in the Yosemite Valley, an area he was instrumental in preserving as a state park, before it finally became the Yosemite National Park we know today.

That is the only word to describe the news this week that American Rivers, based in Washington, D.C., has put the Merced River on its list of endangered rivers.