A campground in the Sierras of California is probably one you don't know about yet, tucked into the pristine wilderness ...

A whopping 4 million people cram into Yosemite National Park each year. It's easy to see why: This is the home of the vertiginous Half Dome and the roaring Nevada Fall. Basically, it's bucket list ...

On top of these crowds, the ticketed day-entry system to enter the park, the huge popularity of Yosemite’s campgrounds and ...

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Tenaya Lake offers not just respite from the valley heat but it is also an easy-to-access slice of the quintessential high ...

The lake is at 8,149 feet. That means on a 100-degree day in the valley, the temperature there won’t peak much above 80 ...

Toss in the fact Tenaya Lake — as well as Half Dome and Yosemite Valley itself — was carved by glaciers and it is clear climate change per se has been around a long time and is clearly driven more so ...

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Half Dome is ranked #5 out of 21 things to do in Yosemite National Park. See pictures and our review of Half Dome.

On June 8, 2025, Kate Kelleghan hit the anchor as I hit my stopwatch on the summit of Half Dome, completing the first female ascent of the Yosemite Triple Crown, the clock reading 23 hours and 36 ...