The entrance to Yosemite National Park of today is ... tree in the Mariposa Grove is still standing but the tunnel tree at the Wawona entrance to the park, which was cut in 1881, fell in 1968 ...

She named her horse “Marcheta” after the popular song played during dances at that hotel on the southern edge of Yosemite ... Wawona Washburn Hartwig, who had returned to her beloved big trees ...

Stand on the Wawona Swinging Bridge to gently sway above the south fork of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park ... ponderosa pine and cedar trees. To get to the trailhead, you can travel ...

which provided lodging and refreshment for travelers going to Yosemite Valley. It was renamed Wawona (the native word for big trees) in 1882 by the wife of Henry Washburn, who owned the hotel at ...

A popular National Park hotel will soon begin renovations. The Wawona Hotel, located within Yosemite National Park, will close temporarily in December as the the National Parks Service plans to ...

smoke obscured some of Yosemite’s most striking vistas. On Saturday, a tour guide pointed to a model of the topography at the Tunnel View, a popular roadside overlook 20 miles north of Wawona ...

The Washburn Fire burning in Yosemite ... trees killed by drought and bark beetle around 2015 and 2016. As containment grows, crews began work to mop up and remove hazardous trees along Wawona ...