Few organizations can rival the National Park Service when it comes to April Fools’ Day pranks. Despite the Trump ...

California is home to three of the best national parks in the country, according to Lonely Planet. The travel guide recently ...

A mere year after the initial visitor, the first hotel, a ramshackle thing, went up south of the Merced ... and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side.

Grace Rohloff/Facebook An Arizona college student died after she slipped down the face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park during an unexpected rainstorm earlier this month. Grace Rohloff ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of ...

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

Crane Flat, which is directly south of Hetch Hetchy ... Many of the hikes and trails in Yosemite, such as the trek up to Half Dome, are very strenuous and are not meant for everybody.

did a solo six-day snowshoeing trip along the South Rim of Yosemite Valley and finished on Super Bowl Sunday. Mann, 39, who grew up hiking, camping, and ice-fishing in the north end of the ...

Wawona Road leads visitors into the park's hub from the park's south entrance ... of the majestic Yosemite Valley, complete with views of famous park sights, such as Half Dome, El Capitan and ...