As a counter-point, I’d bring up how the park service built a ranger station and permanent restroom at Little Yosemite Valley on the trail to Half Dome, which is also a wilderness area.

It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze at the iconic Yosemite site from the valley floor, the best viewing is at Sentinel Bridge ...

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

Grace Rohloff/Facebook The Arizona college student who died after slipping down the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on Saturday, July 13, had celebrated reaching the summit with her father ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of ...

Grace Rohloff/Facebook An Arizona college student died after she slipped down the face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park during an unexpected rainstorm earlier this month. Grace Rohloff ...

One of the world's largest granite monoliths, El Capitan, along with Half Dome are also located here. Yosemite Valley is an excellent place for first-time visitors to set up camp as most of the ...

It was so easy to find great views of El Capitan, Half Dome, and areas across Yosemite Valley. Tunnel View was easily the ...

did a solo six-day snowshoeing trip along the South Rim of Yosemite Valley and finished on Super Bowl Sunday. Mann, 39, who grew up hiking, camping, and ice-fishing in the north end of the ...

Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra's "In Like a Lion, Out Like a BIGGER Lion" Spring Concerts will be Held on April 12 & 13 ...