Early 20th century visitors to Hetch Hetchy Valley, a few miles north of Yosemite Valley, saw a rich meadowland and green oak groves, with the clear Tuolumne River winding through them, embraced by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The ...

On this we can agree: Today, the Hetch Hetchy Valley is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Nearly 50,000 hikers, campers and visitors spend time there each year. Given the valley's beauty ...

Evoking the memory of John Muir, environmentalists started a new push Monday to restore the fabled but long-flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite, claiming in a study that the reservoir behind ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Hetch Hetchy Valley is located in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park. It's filled with water held back by O'Shaughnessy Dam. Under the ...

August marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. Writer Wallace Stegner once described our national parks as “America’s best idea.” If our national parks are our best ...

The so-called Rim Fire on the edge of Yosemite National Park has scorched an area the size of Chicago near one of the world's natural wonders. So far, it doesn't threaten Yosemite Valley, but it has ...