From Yosemite’s Badger Pass to little-known slopes in Washington State and Ohio, three parks offer a rare chance to ski ...

The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical edition, which ...

There's no doubt about it-Yosemite National Park is a hiker's paradise. There are easy, family-friendly trails where you can ...

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There’s something special about sunset at Yosemite National Park. Whether it’s the day’s final bit of light illuminating the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, or long shadows cast across the valley ...

In an annual California event that signifies the changing of the seasons in the High Sierra, Yosemite National Park officials plan to open Glacier Point Road to motor vehicles on Saturday. The 16-mile ...

Yosemite is a dancing valley. The incredible landscape — massive cliffs and giant waterfalls — are the product of millions of years of motion as granite mounds pushed to the surface and glaciers and ...

Yosemite National Park is defined by its overwhelming magnitude. Granite cliffs rise thousands of feet into the California sky, and waterfalls thunder with a power that vibrates in your chest. But ...

Yosemite visitors entering the popular hiking area on and around the Mist Trail during the next two months will have to time their treks to Half Dome and Glacier Point carefully to comply with a host ...