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For a rare, if not lucky, few days a year, Yosemite National Park’s famed El Capitan granite cliff converts into what looks like an active volcano jutting 3,000 feet above the valley floor.
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Arches National Park will start using time entry per vehicle starting on April 1, 2025. Reservations for April are already open and timed entry will be in effect between 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. except ...
The Sunset Fire started in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon Park on January 8, 2025, at 5:39 p.m. PST. This fire resulted in officials issuing an evacuation order for the Hollywood Hills area, which included tens of thousands of people. [148] [149] By 8:21 p.m. PST, the fire had grown to 50 acres (20 ha; 0.078 sq mi; 0.20 km 2). [91]
A mandatory evacuation order is in place for Wawona and Wawona campground in Yosemite National Park as the Washburn Fire grew to 466 acres Friday afternoon, incident managers said ...
Between 1872 and 1968, people would stoke a large fire atop Yosemite's Glacier Point late in the day then push the red-hot embers from the fire off a cliffside after nightfall to the amazement of ...
The fire was reported on July 7, 2022, in the lower Mariposa Grove area near the Washburn trail, for which the fire is named. [2] The fire quickly attracted national attention due in part to the role the Mariposa Grove played in the establishment of Yosemite National Park and the National Park Service. [3]
The Henness Ridge Fire Lookout in Yosemite National Park was built in 1934 [1] by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18–24. The CCC provided unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States.