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Parking for Inspiration Point is at Tunnel View, located just after the Wawona Tunnel on Wawona Road if you're entering the park from the south. Wawona Road is Hwy. 41 outside the park.

Standing at the usually scenic Tunnel View, Aitken listed what he could not see. "Normally, I'd see mountains. On the left side you would see Half Dome from here, and you'd see Glacier Point," he ...

Yosemite's most underrated trail, like many of the park's most popular routes, gets its name from historical figures. Olmstead Point was named after landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and his ...

I’ve found a second home in Yosemite, a gorgeous national park I’ve been going to almost every year since I was a toddler. By ...

Avoid the crowds at popular areas like Half Dome and Yosemite Falls with these seven secret spots in Yosemite National Park ...

Yosemite is getting back on track after the deadly Ferguson fire shut portions of the national park during its busiest season. Wawona Road, a.k.a. Highway 41, which leads to the popular Tunnel ...