California is home to three of the best national parks in the country, according to Lonely Planet. The travel guide recently combed through all 63 protected nature destinations in the contiguous 48 ...

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The Wave may be one of the oldest and most familiar examples of land managers instituting a system to protect special places ...

A parking lot and paved trails wind through the red-barked trees ... For more tips on Yosemite, check out Yosemite National ...

Skip Yosemite’s crowds and explore otherworldly landscapes with lava fields and steaming fumaroles along epic hikes in this California hidden gem.

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With its fiery red rock formations and endless blue ... April is when Yosemite shakes off winter and roars to life. The waterfalls — Bridalveil, Yosemite Falls, and Vernal — are at their ...

The attraction here is the icy blue waters that tumble across red rocks, including Havasu Falls. Devastating floods ... a background view of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park.

For weekend escapes in the mountains, Yosemite National Park sets a beautiful ... Spend the days hiking to picturesque waterfalls, wandering through fields of flowers, climbing granite walls ...

Described by naturalist and author John Muir as "the Yosemite of the North," the awe ... From the sky, you'll see towering 1,000-foot waterfalls, the volcanic Revillagigedo Island, snowcapped ...

Stand in the shadow of some of the largest trees on earth at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a 6,500-acre preserve that opened to the public in 1852, almost 40 years before Yosemite became ... Native ...