Yosemite National Park 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 ...

If you're planning a road trip to Yosemite National Park, don't miss the chance to take a scenic drive up this road, known for its views of Yosemite Valley.

Yosemite National Park centres on Yosemite Valley, a glacier-carved granite cleft framed by sheer cliffs and waterfalls, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Scott Gediman was explaining how the poolside and patio of the Majestic Yosemite Hotel would usually be full of politicians, dignitaries and others lapping in ...

The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged ...

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 ...

"Yosemite Valley is one of the most famous topographic features on the planet," said glaciologist Kurt Cuffey, UC Berkeley professor of geography and of earth and planetary science. "And of course, if ...