Tourists refer to the natural phenomenon as the “firefall,” although park officials reserve that term for the days when ...

Yosemite’s Firefall! For just a few days each year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Horsetail Fall, making it glow like ...

Two weather factors need to come together perfectly for the firefall to ignite. First, storms need to deliver rain and mountain snow to the Yosemite area leading up to Feb. 21 to feed Horsetail ...

This year, the chaos surrounding Firefall — and resulting damage to the area of the park where visitors gather to behold it — has some conservation-minded Yosemite tour guides opting out ...

Summer online reservations for Yosemite National Park, which hosts nearly 4 million annual visitors, have been postponed. But those who want to see Firefall must still make reservations.

Tourists refer to the natural phenomenon as the “firefall,” although park officials reserve that term for the days when people used to push bonfires off Glacier Point. According to Yosemite ...

Summer online reservations for Yosemite National Park have been postponed for an indefinite time. No reservations are needed to visit the park on weekdays until the end of March, with the exception of ...

The mountainside of Yosemite National Park will appear to catch fire later this month as the viral firefall ignites in one of California's most popular tourist destinations. Photographers from around ...

Yosemite National Park's El Capitan and Cathedral Rocks with the Merced River on Feb. 1, 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) ...