Yosemite National Park is a vast protected area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, covering an area of over ...

1902). Corbis Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park Chee-Onn Leong / iStockphoto The naturalist John Muir is so closely associated with Yosemite National Park—after all, he helped draw up its ...

A main entrance to Yosemite Park in California ... and one of the main entrances into the park, closed on Tuesday due to a rock slide, according to the National Park Service (NPS).

After several recent rains, a main highway into Yosemite National Park is closed indefinitely due to a rockslide, state officials said. About a two-mile stretch of Route 140 between Briceburg and ...

Covering an area of more than 750,000 acres, Yosemite National Park is ... Yosemite Valley include the John Muir Trail, which offers excellent views of the park's granite peaks; and the Four ...

In 1851, the first white men entered the Yosemite ... national park, soldiers built the first trail to Mount Whitney and erected protective fences around the big trees. On May 17, 1864, Senator ...