The Merced Wild and Scenic River Plan would reconfigure much of the Yosemite Valley by removing or relocating familiar concessions. Park officials also hope to reduce traffic that often transforms ...

Despite its enormous size, the majority of Yosemite's 4 million annual visitors confine themselves within the Yosemite Valley ... Yosemite Falls and the Merced River. The Mist Trail also offers ...

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

In the middle of Yosemite Village in the deep valley of California's upper Merced River is a soft-drink machine ... bearing no name on my maps. Going up was like climbing the back of a mythically ...