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The prospect of another federal government shutdown this weekend worries many Tuolumne County business owners and tourism promoters who remember skeleton staffing, uncollected trash, locked toilets, and human feces in
Yosemite Valley will remain closed until at least Wednesday morning depending on the height of river as snow melts
That morning sun was low in the sky and not the best for picture taking but still very pretty. The trail led me on. I soon got a sneak peek at Illilouette Fall. There were a few spots with water running down the trail but nothing I couldn’t step on strategic rocks or pieces of wood to get over. I followed the sign to Illilouette Fall. And I could hear the roar of Illilouette Fall long before I reached a spot off of a short side trail with the best view of Illilouette Fall. When you actually reach the fall, you can’t see any of the drop, so the best views are from a ways back.
Photos: Rare night rainbows created by moonlight to arrive in Yosemite FacebookTwitterEmail Lunar rainbows are both exciting and challenging to shoot, according to the photographer, because they depend upon so many things happening simultaneously.Courtesy of Luke Tyree They’ve got a lot of names: Lunar rainbows. Moonbows. Spraybows. Space rainbows. Lunar Spraybows. Whatever you’d like to call the moonlight reflecting off waterfall droplets, the photographs of these things beneath starry skies are absolutely incredible. And, Yosemite National Park is one of the best places in the world to ...
Skip to main content 'So tragic': Hiker may have been the last person to see 'Alice' Yu Xie alive in Yosemite FacebookTwitterEmail A photo of Yosemite Falls on Jan. 14, the day "Alice" Yu Xie hiked to the top and fell from a cliff.Courtesy of Anna Horn On Jan. 14, an unseasonably warm and clear Thursday in Yosemite National Park, Anna Horn went for a solo hike up Yosemite Falls. Horn lives close to the park and works as a bartender in the gateway town of Mariposa, allowing her to visit frequently. Partway up the steep climb to the top of the tallest waterfall in North America, she encountered...