A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The route skirts the edge of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. (Christopher ...

A bit off the typical Yosemite road trip itinerary, a trip to the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the northwest corner of the park surrounds visitors in solitude. One if its signature features is Wapama Falls, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve always had a soft spot for waterfalls. Who doesn’t? So when I planned a family trip to Yosemite last year, I organized my itinerary around as many of the park’s cascades as possible in late ...

If you’re a human in the United States of America or most places in the world, you’re probably familiar with at least one iconic image of a waterfall flowing down a steep granite cliff surrounding ...

California has different biomes within the state's borders as well as many lakes, rivers and waterfalls, but finding some of the best in the state can be difficult. The state also has one of the most ...

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 ...