An iconic trail in Yosemite is closed indefinitely after hundreds of boulders fell on it, national park officials said ... April 15 and covered the John Muir Trail near the top of Nevada Fall ...

in the Yosemite Valley of Yosemite National Park is the Northern terminus The John Muir Trail (JMT) is around 211 miles long and takes 3 -4 weeks to complete for most people. The JMT shares 160 ...

If you are more flexible, however, there are dozens of ways to access large portions of the John Muir Trail from Yosemite National Park and Kings Canyon Sequoia National Parks, as well as Inyo ...

John Muir, often known as “the father of national parks,” described Yosemite National Park ... to get out on the trails. The Mist Trail is one of the park’s most popular for a reason.

A stretch of the Mist Trail will be closed most days for more than two months, requiring hikers to take a longer route to some of Yosemite National ... follows the John Muir Trail to Clark Point ...

While the John Muir Trail is simply stunning enough, there are two side trips I recommend that are once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Half Dome, in Yosemite National Park, is a four-mile round-trip ...

Theodore Roosevelt, left, and John Muir poses atop Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park in 1903. (Library of Congress) They created the doughnut around the hole that was the state park.

Today Yosemite National Park gets from 3 to 4 million visitors a year. John Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson walked virtually alone through the wilderness, and their passion preserved it.

The “Yellowstone” of “Yellowstone to Yosemite With Kevin Costner” is more an allusion to Mr. Costner’s very popular TV drama than to the national park. It is Yosemite that is the focus ...