Canyon Fire initially started today at 5:42 p.m. in Merced County. It has burned 26 acres after being active for two hours, an increase of 26 acres since the last update. A crew of eleven ...

Visitors could enjoy a three-and-a-half-hour journey by rail up the Merced River Canyon from Merced to El Portal, just outside what is now Yosemite's Arch Rock Entrance. Everything changed in 1926 ...