Hetch Hetchy is the only part of Yosemite National Park where day-use visitors can enter later this spring and summer without a day-use reservation. Day-use visitors to all other parts of the park ...

About a mile down the trail to Wapama Falls within Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, we stop and consider our route ahead. In front of us, a cataract of white water gushes down the ...

The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged ...

A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley’s O’Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS The water was winning. Fed by ...

Once rivaling Yosemite Valley in beauty, Hetch Hetchy now lies beneath a reservoir—but its trails, waterfalls, and solitude still shine. With fewer crowds and rich history, this hidden corner of ...

Yosemite is a dancing valley. The incredible landscape — massive cliffs and giant waterfalls — are the product of millions of years of motion as granite mounds pushed to the surface and glaciers and ...