Glacier Point also was the site of a classic old hotel, the Glacier Point Hotel from 1918 to 1969. But in 1968, it was heavily damaged in snowstorms and then burned in an electrical fire the next ...

Four-Mile Trail is a Yosemite classic, the original route to Glacier Point. When it was constructed in the 1870s, it extended four miles, but after an overhaul in the 1920s and the addition of ...

Hotels, restaurants, ... --Empire Fire, 4,350 acres, a mile east of the Yosemite Ski & Snowboard Area. Glacier Point Road and Bridalveil Creek Campground are closed because of the fire, ...

Fun fact: the original Yosemite Firefall was when the owners of the Mountain House Hotel pushed a bonfire off the cliff at Glacier Point, starting in 1872 and ending for good in 1968, according to ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK . ... He and his wife ran the Mountain House, a small, two-story hotel built atop Glacier Point in 1873, from 1880 to 1897. As early as 1872 but perhaps later, ...

Yosemite's Upper, Lower and North ... Del Portal Hotel, burned in 1917; Sentinel Hotel, leveled in the 1920s; Glacier Point Hotel, burned in 1969; and scores of campsites were lost in the floods ...

In an annual California event that marks the changing of the seasons in the High Sierra, Yosemite National Park officials plan to open Glacier Point Road to motor vehicles on Friday morning. The ...