Yosemite’s acting Superintendent, Raymond McPadden, has issued a new rule as part of the park’s Superintendent’s Compendium in response to the increase in protest flag displays. The policy prohibits ...

For those wishing for a Yosemite-like adventure without the crowds, check out this guide to the Trinity Alps which offers a ...

The system will be the least restrictive the park has ever implemented, with reservations required every day from June 15 to Aug. 15, 2025, between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m., as well as over Memorial Day ...

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 ...

With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan.

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s 4:54 a.m. on a chilly November morning in 2016 in Yosemite National Park.