"No reservations are required this year," said a Yosemite National Park statement emailed to SFGATE. The park is encouraging ...

An immensely popular park spectacle that draws thousands of visitors each February will no longer require reservations.

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.

"Firefall" occurs when the sun is setting as beams of sunlight shine down on Horsetail Fall at a particular angle. As it does, the water shines bright and looks like a river of molten lava from a ...

Update: Former Red5 CEO Mark Kern has issued us a statement about his comments on Reddit and the thread's deletion. In a Twitter direct message with PCGamesN today, Mark Kern has clarified his earlier ...

Firefall has one of the worst openings of any MMO I've played. It should be an opportunity to show Firefall's ambition: an open world action game in which you, a jetpack and a rocket launcher fend off ...

The mountainside of Yosemite National Park appeared to catch fire as the annual viral firefall ignited in one of California's most popular tourist destinations. Photographers from around the world ...

In mid to late February, something really special happens in Yosemite: the Firefall phenomenon. This is when the setting sun’s light hits the trickling waterfall named Horsetail Fall on the face of El ...

In late January, the news cycle starts getting everyone excited about the potential of watching the lava-like waterfall flowing off the eastern cliff of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. A spectacle that ...

As I noted in the first week of this month's truncated Choose My Adventure, Firefall is finally an honest to goodness real-life video game. The extended extended beta is over, the launch trailer has ...

Two people who saw my screen during my time in Firefall assumed I was on yet another Borderlands 2 DLC adventure on Pandora. "I wish," I said. Firefall never manages to approach the same level of fun.