Click here if you are unable to view this gallery or video on a mobile device. There’s no finer place in California to view waterfalls than Yosemite Valley. And there’s no better time than now.

The breathtaking waters that cascade off of steep cliffs may be self-made productions. It was long thought that waterfalls needed an outside force to form — such as an earthquake, landslide or changes ...

Visitors stand in a mist cloud while they snap pictures of the gushing Lower Yosemite Fall in the Yosemite Valley. Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times There's no finer place in California to view ...