From water parks to vintage aircraft and fossils, there are no shortage of family friendly opportunities located a short ...

For two weeks in late February every year, the setting sun lends the snowmelt at Horsetail Falls an orange glow ... on the monumental rock face of El Capitan, “it ended up being sort of a ...

Federal workers who were fired from national parks don’t know whether they’ll reclaim their jobs. In the meantime, travelers ...

Olek Chmura parked his blue Chevy truck alongside the El Capitan Meadow ... He spent his free time rock climbing. When he was on the clock, he said, he played a critical role keeping a large ...

“We’ve tried various (management) plans over the years” to curb crowd size, Yosemite National Park Service officials said, including a weekend reservation system in February to limit visitors ...

Yosemite National Park visitors take a look at El Capitan rock formation, left, and Bridalveil Fall from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley in June. CRAIG KOHLRUSS Fresno Bee file Although Yosemite ...

These five places in California's wilderness are jaw-droppingly beautiful but stealthily treacherous, taking the lives of explorers and rescuers alike.

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.