I’ve found a second home in Yosemite, a gorgeous national park I’ve been going to almost every year since I was a toddler. By ...

Some national park hikes test more than your legs—they push your limits. These trails climb high, stretch long, and pull you ...

Perfect weather, stunning scenery, and more room to roam—here’s why spring and fall are the best times to visit.

On top of these crowds, the ticketed day-entry system to enter the park, the huge popularity of Yosemite’s campgrounds and ...

The scariest part of climbing the famous Half Dome cables is not the difficulty of the climb, the steepness of the slope, the ...

I’ve developed a love affair with America’s national parks. I’ve explored more than half of them through solo backpacking ...

Yosemite's most underrated trail, like many of the park's most popular routes, gets its name from historical figures. Olmstead Point was named after landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and his ...

It was a tragedy." Rohloff described how the pair had completed several hikes together throughout Arizona, and how his daughter was thrilled when she secured a permit to hike Yosemite's Half Dome.

Backers of a proposal to allow an unlimited number of people to hike to the top of Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome seem to ignore the obvious: This is nuts. Because permits from the ...

Yosemite’s Half Dome shouldn’t need any PR help. It got a good boost of it though when 93-year-old Everett Kalin ascended the 4,800-foot rock in the national park in central California with ...