Two weather factors need to come together perfectly for the firefall to ignite. First, storms need to deliver rain and mountain snow to the Yosemite area leading up to Feb. 21 to feed Horsetail ...

Tourists refer to the natural phenomenon as the “firefall,” although park officials reserve that term for the days when people used to push bonfires off Glacier Point. According to Yosemite ...

For now, people are unable to book visits from April through October. The popular Yosemite attraction "firefall" is not affected. It happens this month. Reservations are needed for people who want ...

The new Peak Hours Plus program carried a $2 reservation fee and was intended to ease heavy traffic and full parking lots, especially in popular Yosemite Valley. Firefall is the nexus of that battle.

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 ...