On February 14, over 1,000 full-time employees—including park rangers, maintenance staff, and trail managers— were also laid ...

This sublime but underappreciated North Carolina wilderness offers waterfalls, gorges, valleys, and rocky domes that look straight out of Yosemite ...

California is home to three of the best national parks in the country, according to Lonely Planet. The travel guide recently ...

The 11-day, 10-night journey includes two nights aboard the train and eight nights in hotels in Chicago, Salt Lake City, and ...

The slide crashed down across Highway 140, a scenic winding route along the Merced River between the town of Mariposa and ...

When a rockslide on state Route 140 forced Caltrans to close a critical entry point into Yosemite National Park, the impact was swift for surrounding communities. On March 17, after a bout of wet ...

The first such neuroscientist was Giulio Tononi, an associate of Koch’s, who told me my consciousness was “so much greater” than the alpine mountain I lived under at the time, Washington’s ...

A main entrance to Yosemite Park in California is closed due to a rockslide, and motorists are asked to take alternate routes, according to officials. It isn't unusual for roads to close at ...

Bus users can only get as far as Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort. Posted by CaltransDistrict10 on Brian Hooker told SFGATE: “Our teams go out and inspect the hillside prior to these meteorological ...

including Rocky Mountain in Colorado, Arches in Utah and Glacier in Montana. National parks officials approved those plans before Trump took office. In Yosemite, park planners held public meetings ...

Yosemite National Park has been dealing with overcrowding issues for decades, according to National Park Service officials. In 1980, Yosemite welcomed 2 million visitors. By 1996, that number had ...