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This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a new crack on the western side of the Royal Arches formation in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (National Park Service via AP)

A popular climbing area in Yosemite National Park has been closed due to a crack in a granite cliff

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High water levels can be seen on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Much of the famed valley at California's Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday, April 28, due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada's massive snowpack. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Yosemite National Park to close due to anticipated flooding

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the National Park Service, tents at Curry Village are covered with snow in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The park, closed since Saturday because of heavy, blinding snow, postponed its planned Thursday, March 2, 2023, reopening indefinitely. (National Park Service via AP)

Yosemite National Park closed indefinitely due to snow

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

National Park Service names superintendent for Yosemite

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FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2019, file photo, fog covers the El Capitan landmark in Yosemite National Park, Calif. No employee or resident has tested positive of Coronavirus at Yosemite National Park's health clinic, and no visitors have reported being sick since the park began reopening In June 2020. But tests of the park's raw sewage have confirmed the presence of the virus, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday, July 18, 2020, and dozens of people are believed to have been infected. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Tests reveal coronavirus in Yosemite National Park’s sewage

By Associated Press - Associated Press

170 sickened at Yosemite; park confirms 2 cases of norovirus

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Tahoe-area climber survives dangerous fall at Yosemite

By BEN SPILLMAN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, photo, Richard Benefield, former executive director of the David Hockney Foundation, takes a photo inside the exhibit of Hockney's Yosemite artistic work, background, along with baskets from weavers from the Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute tribes on display at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. &quot;David Hockney's Yosemite and Masters of California Basketry&quot; exhibition opens Monday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Hockney works, tribal baskets highlight love of Yosemite

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press

This Monday, July 15, 2019, photo released by the National Park Service shows a Camp Curry welcome sign in Yosemite National Park, Calif. On Monday, July 15, 2019, Delaware North, a company that lost its contract to run Yosemite National Park's hotels, restaurants and outdoor activities, has settled a lawsuit with the National Park Service and the park's new concession operator over rights to the names of famous park landmarks. (National Park Service via AP)

Yosemite landmarks to get names back after suit is settled

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File - In this Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, snow, from recent storms, is cleared from the parking lot of the Strawberry Lodge at Strawberry, Calif. A cold front traveling down to Northern California from the Gulf of Alaska is expected to dump at least a foot of snow in higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada weeks before the start of summer. National Weather Service meteorologist Brendon Rubin-Oster says the first storm will arrive Wednesday, May 15, 2019, and will continue through Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Northern California storms to bring winter-like conditions

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke is handed a microphone while speaking during a campaign stop Friday, April 26, 2019, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Beto O’Rourke unveils climate plan with Yosemite as backdrop

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

In this Saturday, March, 9, 2019, photo provided but the Inyo County Sheriff's Office shows a view of Kearsarge Pass trail area in Inyo National Forest in California's Southeastern Sierra. Authorities say avalanche debris has been spotted during a search for a missing Marine who failed to return from a backcountry skiing trip through the Sierra Nevada. First Lt. Matthew Kraft began trekking the rugged Sierra High Route on Feb. 23 and was scheduled to complete it Monday or Tuesday near Bridgeport, northeast of Yosemite National Park. (Inyo County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Crews search for Marine missing in California mountains

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Mikey Schaefer, from left, Alex Honnold and Sanni McCandless participate in the &quot;Free Solo&quot; panel during the National Geographic portion of the TCA Winter Press Tour on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

‘Free Solo’ film about El Capitan conquest gets TV debut

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo a wedding couple are seen being photographed at Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park. A Yosemite National Park official says two visitors have died in a fall from the popular overlook. Park rangers are trying to recover the bodies of a man and a woman Thursday, Oct.25, 2018. He didn't say when the couple fell from Taft Point, which is at an elevation of 7,500 feet. Gediman says the deaths are being investigated and offered no other information. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers,File)

Yosemite rangers recover bodies of 2 who fell from overlook

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, a couple is married atop Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park. Park rangers recovered the bodies of two people who fell from the popular Yosemite overlook after working to reach them for hours, a park official said Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Park spokeswoman Jamie Richards said rangers recovered the bodies of a male and a female on Thursday after working all day to get to them in the &quot;challenging area.&quot; Richards said she did not know if rangers had to rappel down or hike up the area in Taft Point where a tourist spotted them on Wednesday, Oct. 24. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers, File)

The Latest: 2 killed in Yosemite fell 800 feet from overlook

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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo a wedding couple are seen being photographed at Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park. A Yosemite National Park official says two visitors have died in a fall from the popular overlook. Park rangers are trying to recover the bodies of a man and a woman Thursday, Oct.25, 2018. He didn't say when the couple fell from Taft Point, which is at an elevation of 7,500 feet. Gediman says the deaths are being investigated and offered no other information. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers,File)

Yosemite visitors fall to death from Taft Point overlook

By Olga R. Rodriguez - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo a wedding couple are seen being photographed at Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park. A Yosemite National Park official says two visitors have died in a fall from the popular overlook. Park rangers are trying to recover the bodies of a man and a woman Thursday, Oct.25, 2018. He didn't say when the couple fell from Taft Point, which is at an elevation of 7,500 feet. Gediman says the deaths are being investigated and offered no other information. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers,File)

2 Yosemite National Park visitors die in fall from overlook

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

This photo provided by Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau, shows Yosemite National Park employees, and a few visitors from France, posing for a photo holding hand fans that read #YosemiteNOW, a hashtag being used to spread the word that the park is open, at the park's Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Most of Yosemite is set to reopen Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018 after a 20-day closure, resulted from a wildfire. (Steve Montalto/Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau via AP)

Yosemite park reopens, but fire’s toll on tourism still felt

By Amanda Lee Myers - Associated Press

Yosemite to reopen Tuesday, 14 days after blaze choked air

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018 image from a Yosemite Conservancy webcam, smoke from wildfires obscures the Ahwahnee Meadow at Yosemite National Park, Calif. Yosemite National Park could reopen its scenic valley and other areas Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, if conditions improve after a 12-day closure due to nearby wildfires. The park’s iconic cliffs have been shrouded in so much smoke that the air quality in Yosemite is currently worse than Beijing. (Webcam by Yosemite Conservancy via AP)

‘Hazardous’ smoky air shuts Yosemite in peak tourist season

By JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press