Yosemite National Park is most famous for El Capitan and Half Dome, but its animal residents deserve just as much attention. The area’s rich diversity of wildlife finally gets the spotlight in a new ...

Since I was a little girl, something about the idea of a national park has always captured my imagination. I still have a book I bought in middle school, “National Parks of the USA,” and within its ...

Yosemite National Park is famous for its towering granite, thundering waterfalls and world-class hiking trails. The stunning heart of the park, Yosemite Valley, is extremely popular and almost always ...

One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...

Half Dome of Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of Kings Mountain National Military Park Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, encompasses 1,200 square miles of ...

At the top of Yosemite National Park’s Vernal Fall on a recent holiday weekend, amid the throngs of tourists snapping photos and feasting on snacks and picnic lunches, a squirrel crept across smooth ...