An updated rulebook for Yosemite National Park would criminalize activists for flying certain flags within the world-renowned landscape.

YOSEMITE, CA – JAN. 10: Tourists in winter hats are silhouetted against El Capitan in a view of Yosemite National Park, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, from a Wawona Road lookout. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area ...

Alex J. Wood was in the Yosemite Valley on Monday morning taking photos of El Capitan’s picturesque rock face when he heard what sounded like the “loudest thunder ever.” ...

California’s Yosemite National Park, with its domineering El Capital rock formation, is a bucket-list destination for many.

Among El Capitan's earliest admirers were artists, like landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, who arrived in Yosemite in 1863. He wrote to a friend that he had found the Garden of Eden.

FILE: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, February 2023. A rockslide came off the east side of El Capitan on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, originating near Yosemite's famous firefall.

With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan.

The demonstration was held almost exactly three months after a group of protesters hung an upside-down American flag from El Capitan on Feb. 22. Held during Yosemite's "Firefall" event, the flag ...

See the "Firefall" at El Capitan. The yearly event happens around this time of year and 2025 was not the exception, videos from El Capitan show Horsetail Fall glowing.

Jaw-dropping footage emerged this week of a “thunderous” rockslide inside Yosemite National Park that temporarily closed down part of the natural beauty. Boulders came tumbling down Monday ...