The Latest Breaking News from Yosemite

The 95-year-old Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park will close for two months at the start of 2023 to undergo a $31.6 million renovation to make the hotel better equipped to withstand earthquakes, the California park announced Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES — I recently ventured to California's most-visited national park — Yosemite — for a whirlwind 48-hour tour. Turns out, there’s a lot you can do and see in the land of the Ahwahneechee over a couple days.

LOS ANGELES — After a nearly one-month closure, Yosemite National Park’s famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias reopened to the public this week, drawing hundreds of people who came together to celebrate the survival of the towering trees after they had been threatened by wildfire.

Yosemite National Park officials plan to reopen the park's south entrance at 6 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday.

Treatments conducted well ahead of time may help limit damage from Washburn fire

The growing wildfire in California threatens some of the tallest grove of giant sequoia trees in the Yosemite National Park.

More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.

An out-of-control wildfire is threatening a grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park and it's prompted evacuations orders for hundreds of people

Officials say none of Yosemite’s famous giant sequoias has been damaged by the blaze, but part of the park was closed.

A portion of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famous giant sequoia trees

The sprawling, powder-covered ski resort near the top of Killington Peak, deep in Vermont's Green Mountains, resembles tiny Buck Hill, a couple dozen yards from a freeway in a Minneapolis suburb, in the same way that Yosemite and Fenway are both parks. Yet as she stood atop a Killington starting…