The rare mesmerizing scene can be glimpsed at sunset around mid to late February at Yosemite Valley in California.

Yosemite National Park's famed "firefall" phenomenon will be easier to access next month with the National Park Service (NPS) eliminating the need for advanced reservations. Tucked inside of the ...

Between February 10 and 26, for a few minutes at sunset, Horsetail Fall glows like molten lava or cascading fire spilling down El Capitan. It is called the Yosemite "Firefall".

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yosemite National Park won’t require reservations in 2026 for visitors hoping to see one of its most famous natural spectacles.

Time is running out to see one of Yosemite National Park’s most famous — and most fleeting — natural spectacles. For a few weeks in February, Yosemite visitors can catch a glimpse of the “firefall,” a ...

YOSEMITE, Calif. — Cloaked in a cape of white, a certain stillness sits over Yosemite National Park as a fresh coating of snow blankets the landscape, as tourists from across the globe descend on this ...

A view of the firefall at Yosemite's Horsetail Falls in 2019. (Raul Roa / Los Angeles Times) Yosemite's firefall — the winter convergence of sunbeams and falling water that has drawn growing crowds to ...

Every year, rain and snow runoff slip down the eastern face of El Capitan, creating a narrow waterfall that drops over two thousand feet to the valley. In February, for about a two week period, the ...

View of Yosemite's Firefall. February gets bustling in Yosemite National Park thanks to a phenomenon nicknamed the “Firefall.” It’s when sunset turns 2,130-foot-tall Horsetail Fall into a magma-like ...

Each year for a brief window, Yosemite’s sunsets transform El Capitan into a fleeting glowing waterfall. Yosemite's "Firefall" glows on El Capitan. The natural, two-week phenomenon in mid-to-late ...