To many, a trailhead is just a place to park and start a hike, but for Mariposa Trails it is the place where a relationship between the user and nature begins. Voluntourism is one way a visitor can enter this relationship of reciprocity. Through a mix of vacation travel, volunteering and stewardship, tourists explore new […]
The Cold Canyon Trail begins off Highway 140 near El Portal, just minutes from the entrance to Yosemite National Park and to hotels in the Merced River Canyon. Set deep in a canyon, the trail meanders along a creek shaded with alder, maple, ash, oak and pine trees which are home to an abundance of […]
