the National Park Service lists a few on its website. Visitors recommend longer hikes, such as the 13.4-mile Alta Trail or the multiday 65-mile High Sierra Trail, to escape the crowds, especially ...

The 72-mile trail starts within the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park and leads to Yosemite-like landscapes. Here's why the High Sierra Trail is one of the most difficult yet ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

The stalactites and stalagmites of Sequoia National Park’s Crystal ... dominates the Sierra Nevada range — and an underground stream runs alongside much of the cave trail.

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include ...

Nevada's Great Basin National Park is extremely diverse, covering over 77,000 acres with ancient forests, high mountain peaks ... is located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

A giant sequoia is seen after surviving the Windy Fire during a tour of the Trail of 100 Giants, also known as Long Meadow Grove, in the Sequoia National ... tend to be too high for flames to ...