Yosemite News

Dave Uberuaga, a 24 year veteran of the National Park Service, has been selected to serve as the acting superintendent at Yosemite National Park.

The spectacular views of Half Dome don't include snow at the moment, but skaters are still seeing it daily as they glide on a famous piece of ice in Yosemite National Park. Warm weather delayed the opening of the Curry Village Ice Rink until Thanksgiving, and visitors were ready for the park's 80th season of ice skating, officials said.

Whether coated in white snow or shrouded in stark winter gray, Yosemite National Park takes on a serene identity from December through February. Without summer crowds or hot sun, the park is prime for skiing, skating and quiet hikes to majestic sequoia trees—weather permitting. Suit up in waterproof attire, equip your car tires for icy conditions and prepare to be awestruck by the winter scene at Yosemite.

For the family that is looking to vacation on a budget or simply the bargain hunter, the beauty of Yosemite can still be enjoyed with an inexpensive stay at Yosemite Pines RV Resort & Family Lodging.

Berkeley’s Heyday Books, publisher of exclusively California-related titles, has assumed all publishing-related functions for the Yosemite Association effective immediately. Malcolm Margolin, who founded Heyday in 1974, has been on the Yosemite Association board for over 10 years.

An unstable cliff prompted officials Friday to permanently close some cabins in a popular Yosemite National Park lodge complex that has a long history of rockslides. National Park Service officials said 233 cabins in family friendly Curry Village will close permanently. That's about one-third of the units available in the complex that also includes stores and restaurants run by an outside company.

A major rockslide at Yosemite National Park's Curry Village has prompted officials to consider closing part of the lodging area permanently.

Unpacking his car after a trip last month, Yosemite National Park boss Mike Tollefson chatted with an intimidating visitor lying next to his sidewalk -- a deer with a large rack of antlers. "I was trying to have this conversation with him, mostly so he wouldn't be startled," he said. "I wanted to be really careful." Whether he's speaking to a buck mule deer in the front yard or an environmental pit bull in the courtroom, careful conversations have defined Tollefson's life for six years in the park. All that will end in January.

Dreaming of a white Christmas but hesitant about airfare to Aspen? Then go ye to Yosemite National Park. The park interior is full of enjoyable options including heated tent cabins and less rustic lodge rooms, but more comfort for your dollar — as well as, perhaps, serenity — may be had outside park boundaries.

Don't tell the big shots at the National Park Service that they can't improve a masterpiece. The famous view of Yosemite Valley at the overlook known as Tunnel View was getting a little rough around the edges, so park officials got out their broad brushes and gave it a little touchup.

After a rock slide on Tuesday damaged an unoccupied cabin, another pile of debris forced hundreds of visitors from their vacation hideaways Wednesday at Yosemite National Park. Thursday, park officials reopened some of the cabins in Curry Village while still investigating what caused to rocks to tumble.

From California to Costa Rica, rising temperatures could be driving species to higher elevations Chipmunks, mice and other small mammals pretty much moved up in the world as Yosemite National Park’s climate warmed during the last century. As temperatures rose, these species tended to edge upward to higher and cooler ground, says Craig Moritz, director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, Calif.

Global warming is causing major shifts in the range of small mammals in Yosemite National Park, one of the nation's treasures that was set aside as a public trust 144 years ago, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

Cabins near Curry Village in Yosemite National Park have been evacuated after a second rock slide in the past two days hit the area about 7:15 a.m. today. Seven cabins were destroyed and three or four more damaged in today's slide, said Ariel Kelly, a park spokesman. Five tent cabins and two hard-sided cabins were destroyed.

Steve Fossett's plane and a tiny amount of human remains have been found in California near Yosemite National Park, officials confirmed today. The millionaire U.S. adventurer has been missing since early September 2007.