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 ...

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

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

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.

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 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 ...

The original Yosemite firefall stemmed from Mountain House ... revived the firefall tradition in the early 1900s. Over the years, the fires — built “using red fir bark, known for its superior ...