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Popular visitor lodging areas in Yosemite Valley will be closed permanently due to risk of rock falls after a study was conducted.
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The desert's getting hotter, and demand for campsites in Joshua Tree slackens when it gets hot.
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Tioga Pass Road will open on May 7, Yosemite National Park officials announced today. That's quite a difference compared to last year when it opened mid-June due to a heavy snow season.
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Damage from a summer storm left the campground badly damaged, but all that rain has beget an early bloom of wildflowers.
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With winter storms heading toward Yosemite National Park, its epic back entrance, the Tioga Pass, will close Tuesday evening.
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Wind damage and high fire danger prompted its closure on Thursday.
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Trails and a popular remote waterfall closed since the summer will remain so until next spring.
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As of November 1, visitors can travel the spectacular Pinto Basin Road for the first time since violent storms cut off access September 13.
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There's a half mile or so to go and then it will be finished: 5.5 miles in the Eastern Sierra-Nevada Mountains for walkers, runners and cyclists.
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One of California's smallest, yet beautiful national park units has closed its doors for the season.
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Several coast redwoods fell this morning, blocking a popular scenic drive in Redwood National and State Parks. No one was reported hurt, and it could take at least a week to clear the old growth trees--one which is over...
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Skiing does not officially begin at Mammoth Mountain or Lake Tahoe until November, but the first snow of the season has arrived, and more is coming.
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After emergency work to repair washouts that hit during September's violent storms, Joshua Tree National Park reopened about a third of Pinto Basin Road Friday. Campsites also reopened.
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The popular Trail of 100 Giants in the southern Sierra-Nevada Mountains has lost a couple of its enormous trees. On Friday, two giant sequoias fell side by side, blocking a portion of the 1.3-mile meandering trail system.
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That weather this morning in the California desert has caused widespread damage across the Coachella Valley. Not only are a number of highways now closed, roads and campgrounds in Joshua Tree National Park were left damaged, prompting closures after an estimated three inches of rain fell.
California Foraging: San Gabrielino
Make a salad -- and some croquettes -- using wild SoCal ingredients.
