Guests won't need a reservation to visit this remote scenic area of Yosemite this year, a travel expert told Newsweek.

The system is named for the former Hetch Hetchy Valley, which is now underwater in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, held back by the O’Shaughnessy Dam that impounds the Tuolumne River inside Yosemite ...

The only thing you're really missing by visiting Hetch Hetchy instead of Yosemite Valley is the headache of dealing with too many people while trying to escape to a remote, natural wonderland.

Without Hetch Hetchy, San Franciscans would sometimes have gone waterless; so would many a farm in the valley between, a land rainless four months or more a year. Fifteen years ago San Franciscans ...

The Hetch Hetchy gate is the least visited entrance ... of what John Muir described as a place as beautiful as Yosemite Valley. The early owners of Groveland’s Evergreen Lodge were drawn to ...

A bit off the typical Yosemite road trip itinerary, a trip to the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the northwest corner of the park surrounds visitors in solitude. One if its signature features is Wapama ...

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“Our organization and every other conservation organization I’m aware of supports the seismic upgrades to the Hetch-Hetchy system,” Drekmeier said. “What we are adamantly opposed to ...

East Palo Alto has no emergency source other than through tie-ins with surrounding cities who also rely on Hetch Hetchy supplies. Even the well-diversified supplier Valley Water, also known as ...