A hiker slipped on one of the bridges spanning Yosemite's Wapama Falls last week and tumbled into the raging cataract above the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, park officials said. The 66-year-old man was ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley's O'Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. The ...

RICHMOND -- No one doubts the beauty or historical provenance of the steam-powered wooden schooner that sits on a barge at the Port of Richmond's Terminal 3. But the Wapama's age and status as the ...

The National Park Service has decided to dismantle the 96-year-old steam lumber schooner Wapama, a National Historic Landmark that is the last vessel of its kind. The Wapama, which had a long career ...

the crazy fact about this weak spot is that while right next door, Yosemite Valley gets millions of visitors *** year. The number of people who come to go through this tunnel and witness what's on the ...

A 66-year-old man died last week after he fell off a bridge at Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park, officials said Tuesday. The man, whose identity has not been released, slipped off the Wapama ...

Built in an Oregon shipyard in 1915 and powered by a 950-horsepower engine, the 215-foot Wapama was a “single-ender,” meaning her engine, deckhouse, crew and passenger quarters were housed aft, ...

In this photo supplied by Yosemite National Park, a rockfall is seen on Monday, March 31, 2014. Officials at Yosemite National Park say a massive amount of rock has fallen from a cliff, closing a ...

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 ...