Yosemite's crowds can be suffocating, but this overlooked trail has solitude and some of the valley's best views. SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Less crowded than Yosemite Valley, whose roads have been choked with visitors, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a half-forgotten realm filled with granite walls, tall falls and wildflowers.

Yosemite National Park visitors take a look at El Capitan rock formation, left, and Bridalveil Fall from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

A good book can be hard to find. So can the Yosemite Valley branch of the Mariposa County Library, hidden off a side road among nondescript, identical buildings operated by the National Park ...

Nature: Yosemite's "firefall" 01:59 Yosemite National Park, Calif. — A popular rock climbing area in Yosemite National Park has been closed because of a crack that's developed in a massive ...

The Yosemite Valley Chapel is the oldest building open for public use in Yosemite. The chapel was built in 1879. The church was moved to its current site in 1901.

Yosemite National Park visitors take a look at El Capitan rock formation, left, and Bridalveil Fall from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

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 ...