Standing for more than a century, Old Faithful Inn "has the distinction of being considered a benchmark of national park ...

There’s a kind of magic that only happens when you trade roads for rivers and screens for starlight.” Picture this: You’re sipping coffee in a ...

Most of the town’s homes and buildings are owned by the city and county of San Francisco. Every resident works, in some capacity, for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to operate the Hetch ...

The crowds at Yosemite thin out late in the day. Most visitors who aren’t staying overnight in one of the valley’s ...

The Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, established in 2020 following President Donald Trump’s signing of the Great American Outdoors Act, provides $6.5 billion for national parks across the country ...

That’s Coarsegold, California for you – a tiny Sierra Nevada foothill town where gold rush history meets affordable living, and where retirees are discovering their dollars stretch further than a ...

There's a lot of folks who are doing the jobs that three people used to do," a former Yosemite superintendent said.

Standing at the base of the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park, it feels as if I have been ...

A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With ...

Yosemite National Park fired a park ranger last week for hanging a transgender pride flag on the park’s iconic El Capitan rock formation in May.

The park service initially opposed the development of Badger Pass Ski Area as not conducive to the national park ideal, but Yosemite Park and Curry Company insisted it was key to boosting winter use.

Two private businesses, the Curry Camping Company and the Yosemite National Park Company, had long competed for tourist dollars within the park. Each wanted to build a gas station to boost profits.