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 ...

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 ...

A stretch of the Mist Trail will be closed most days for more than two months, requiring hikers to take a longer route to some of Yosemite National Park’s most popular destinations. The closure for ...

There are plenty of U.S. national parks worth visiting in the fall. Yosemite National Park is one of these. Every year, thousands of hikers and photographers plan a trip to this protected area between ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do California's most popular national park and a historic landmark in San Francisco have in common? In their 2025 study of America’s most loved hiking trails, outdoor adventure website KÜHL found ...

The number of hikes in massive Yosemite National Park, encompassing nearly 1,200 square miles, can seem endless. So what to see on your next Yosemite vacation? Here’s a list of some of the park’s ...

Three thousand people a day visit Mist Trail, which has views of two majestic waterfalls and is arguably the most popular hike at Yosemite National Park. Mist Trail is now going to get a $5-million ...