Yosemite National Park is home to many outstanding wildlife species, from darting fishers to handsome blacktail bucks. One of the most striking is the Yosemite’s great grey owl—that big, wraithlike bird of the park’s higher forests and glades. Introducing the Great Gray Owl Yosemite’s Great gray owls, which range across northern North America and Eurasia, [...]
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What to Do If You See a Bear
The biggest—and perhaps the most famous—of Yosemite’s native wildlife is the American black bear. Many visitors to the national park hope to see a bear; many also fear such an encounter, haunted by lurid visions of nighttime campsite raids and oversized foaming-at-the-mouth bruins. While the chances of a violent run-in with a black bear are [...]
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Beautiful Glacier Point
Glacier Point is considered one of the best lookout spots in the entire country, and some would argue, in the whole world. Glacier Point is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of over 7,000 feet. It stands 3,200 feet above Curry Village. From Glacier Point the entire Yosemite Valley can [...]
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What is a Yosemite Moonbow?
A Yosemite moonbow is a rare phenomenon that occurs in Yosemite National Park only a few times a year. As you might expect, a moonbow or a lunar rainbow is a rainbow that appears at night (John Muir called them Lunar Spraybows)! For moonbows to occur there has to be mist in the air and [...]
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