But for those looking to escape the crowds and discover a lesser-known landscape of waterfalls, granite cliffs and alpine lakes, there's another destination worth the detour: Hetch Hetchy.

In Yosemite National Park, 143 miles from San Francisco, the waters of the Tuolumne River are dammed in the big blue lake called Hetch Hetchy. Without Hetch Hetchy, San Franciscans would sometimes ...

If you enter the park on a bicycle, on foot, or on horseback, or if you visit Hetch Hetchy reservoir, you do not need a peak-hours reservation to enter the park. Park entrance fees still apply.

Department of Environmental Protection officials have been planning for years to temporarily shut down a section of the Delaware Aqueduct north of the city to address the leak of up to 35 million ...

Sure, it's one of the more crowded national parks, but I've always found it easy enough to escape the throngs by trekking in the area's high country, road tripping over to Hetch Hetchy ...