A visitor pulls into parking specifically designated for Firefall viewing in Yosemite Valley Friday, Feb 9, 2024 in Yosemite ...

Every year from mid-to-late February, the setting sun hits ... nearly 50 years later. It was after the original Firefall was banned that the natural version was discovered. In the early 1970s ...

Firefall returns to Yosemite in February, and two lodges are offering a way to bypass a new reservation system to view the ephemeral winter event.

Summer online reservations for Yosemite National Park have been postponed for an indefinite time. No reservations are needed ...

The natural phenomenon has exploded in popularity in recent years, to the point ... has some conservation-minded Yosemite tour guides opting out of Firefall entirely. The problem stretches ...

I’ve eaten at the world’s best restaurants. One of the best things I’ve ever tasted cost $2 from a tiny takeout store I visited the city that's been nicknamed the 'Paris of North America ...

First, storms need to deliver rain and mountain snow to the Yosemite area leading up to Feb. 21 to feed Horsetail Fall. In years of drought, the waterfall runs dry, and the firefall can't happen.

The breath-taking 'waterfall of fire' is a trick of the light, that illuminates Yosemite’s Horsetail waterfall on clear February nights ...