The Yosemite Firefall is a stunning natural phenomenon that occurs when the setting sun illuminates Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, California, making it appear as though a fiery cascade of ...

For a few weeks in February, a spectacular sight draws crowds of visitors to Yosemite National Park. Each day, just before sunset, Horsetail Fall on the eastern edge of El Capitan gets a back-lit glow ...

Reservations to visit Yosemite are required every weekend in February. A cold weather system dropped about 2 feet of snow in Yosemite in the past week and brought a dusting to the national park’s ...

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Some visitors to Yosemite National Park this week were delighted to see a glowing ribbon of water that looked like molten lava cascade down Horsetail Fall on El Capitan. Horsetail Fall doesn’t usually ...

A chance to see the natural “firefall” glow in Yosemite National Park in mid-February requires patience, clear skies, water, the right weather conditions — and now a day-use reservation. For at least ...

When sunlight hits a tiny waterfall on the eastern side of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, it glows a gorgeous orange or red. For two weeks of the year, Horsetail Fall becomes firefall. The ...

Yosemite's "firefall," a brief period every year when the late-winter (and sometimes fall) sun backlights the park's Horsetail Falls causing it to glow bright orange, has grown into a major event.