Yosemite Flood: April 7, 2018 

Its still to my mind one of the top five beautiful places on earth. We Aussies have a lot of beauty in our region and country but I will never forget spending christmas in Yosemite in 1995. It was a true winter wonderland and its a credit to the US Government for this first national park in the USA. Honestly, I could live out my days in perfect happiness there, but thats impossible.

Phenomenal! Absolutely phenomenal. Imagining the Ahwahnechee having their minds blown just like us by these types of floods centuries ago. I've never seen Horsetail that full. Thanks again for the wild, wild imagery!

Thanks to everyone at Yosimite, and the entire NPS, for all your hard work. Your efforts are deeply appreciated.

We had a giant rainfall and snow storm at Christmas 1964 when I worked in the Grand Dining Room of the Ahwahnee Hotel. It rained so hard that the Valley became one giant lake, the hotel was sandbagged, we were cut off completely from civilization. It stopped for a few days, we had supplies brought in, then it snowed and snowed and again we were isolated from the rest of the world at Christmas. But we had the Bracebridge Dinner, the opera singers sang "O Holy Night," and a large bear climbed a tall snowdrift at the far end of the dining room, looking down upon us through the tall window. An adult Shirley Temple and her family spent the holidays with us at the hotel, as they always did in those days. A most memorable Christmas for us all.

Great video. Well shot. Super informative. We missed that by 1 day. We left on Thursday. Keep up the good work!

Nice camera work, nice steady footage, a joy to watch without getting watery eyes. This footage gets the message across.

What a beautiful place and all the water just added to it. I have never had the opportunity to go there and most likely never will so thank you for the video 🌧️ 🌲

My favorite place on the planet.

That looks awesome I wish I could've been up there for that. No crowds, no tourists ugh heaven...

Great video. Very informative. A lot of recovery work there, thanks for all your effort.

Wow -- Lower Yosemite Falls! Thanks for posting this incredible footage.

Bicyclists had to be loving you at 2:19... smh...

Wow, crazy flooding! Visited Yosemite in September 2017. Thanks for posting!

I've been here & never thought it could flood like this! Such a beautiful place. Given another opportunity I sure would love to be here again! Thank you for all your hard work!

I pray no one was hurt, and low land animals made it to higher grounds. That water roared in with a force. Rain is a beast. This video was so calming, just the sound of the water flowing, and the majestic vistas.

Thanks ---great video! Yosemite is stunning in all seasons!

Excellent footage! Thank you! Crazy how much water that goes through there!

Surreal footage. Thanks for posting!

WOW! We thought the river was high last June. Jaw-dropping footage.

Wow!!! That is a lot of water!

Amazing! My only visit to the park was in January 2014...in the middle of severe drought! Yosemite falls was barely a trickle. It's such a dynamic place, can't wait to go back! Thanks for sharing:)

Wow, that's crazy. I was a bit scared for the trucks driving through that deep water!

As a child and a young teenager I lived in Calif app 70 miles from Yosemite. My last visit to Yosemite was in 1964. Now I live in the Southern US. It is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to return. I watch video's of Yosemite all the time and LONG to be young enough to return again.

Nicely shot video. Thank you for the education

One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. But even with the flooding it's still a beautiful place. My hats off to the National Park Service for maintaining and protecting it as well as they do.

I'm still seeing the beauty and magic of This Piece of Heaven. Gracias for sharing, all your videos are great. They bring me great memories and I can dream to go back again.

So I love California. Drove there in a 2006 Mustang gt in 2017. One place that I didn't get a chance to see was Yosemite. So, my mom turned 70 in January of 2020, and for her birthday I flew her to California to see family and the beauty of the Golden State. We went to Lake Tahoe, gambled on the Nevada side. Muir woods and Alcatraz island on her birthday. But the one place that just blew me away was Yosemite valley. It just snowed 2 days before and words can't describe the beauty of this place in the winter. Can't wait to get back, if you've never been there......GO!!!

The park is going to be really green this year!

Hmm... your video of the flood only just rotated to my channel's homepage. I'm glad it did as I had not heard about the flooding. Thanks bunches!

Amazing.... Beautiful but also a reminder as to how powerful nature truly is.... 🌿

Wow! We were there about a month ago; beautiful place any time of year. Thx for sharing!

Great video, and excellent idea to close the park!

Watching this on a stressful day was like taking a pill, I do truly feel better, Nice camera footage !!

thank you, Kristin and all staff for sharing this awesome experience and keeping our park beautiful and safe. I like the footage of the little water critter that looked like a tiny river otter. Pika?

Nice video Park Service! Thank you for the upload...

One of the most scenic floods I've ever seen.

Beautiful footage!

Please post more! I love my national parks :) They are our national treasure and we must protect them. I am moving to Oregon soon, and I can't wait to start hitting the trails in the West Coast.

Wonderful video of nature at work. We often forget that much of the formation and nourishment of nature is by the flow water. Looking forward to visiting in early summer.

Looks peaceful still 🙃

I was there less than a month ago and it was covered in snow everywhere, Yosemite can change so fast into a whole other.

It's so beautiful and I'm thoroughly upset that I'll most likely never be able to visit. _I could watch this all day._ Thank you for sharing this amazing part of our Country and World.

WOW.. great video..!! The valley got filled up quickly

I hope the flooding damagers weren't terribly extreme, but this was greatly needed based on some videos I've seen from the park over the last few years. Glad Yosemite Falls will live once again

' very beautifully rain, beautifully flood, beautifully storm, beautifully weather

This place is so beautiful, absolutely stunning

Great footage guys, hope I can get to see this place one day. Greetings from OZ (Australia).

I just came across this video, then I checked the photos on my computer to see which dates I had visited Yosemite in 2018. Turns out I was in Yosemite Valley the very next weekend (Sunday, April 15) with my wife, my son, and his family. Fortunately, the water had receded to the point that it didn't really affect our visit. The waterfalls were sure running strong. I was also in Yosemite Valley on January 1, 1997, with my son and younger daughter. This was the time of the famous Pineapple Express weather system that flooded the Valley even more than this event in 2018. We went to Yosemite so the kids could play in the snow. When it started to rain, we decided to leave. When we got home to Fresno, we found out that the Valley had closed due to rising flood waters sometime during the two hours it took us to drive home. The news that night focused on the group of nuns that were now trapped in Yosemite Valley. We had seen them earlier having a snowball fight.

Great footage

I remember the water lapping at the windows of the little house above the Lewis Memorial Hospital/now clinic when i was a kid in 1956 or 57. But then there were only the 1000 winter residents in the valley and everyone worked together to provide for the park. Still and all, the best place on earth!

thanks! it's good to see around there

Wow! Dry out before I come for a visit!

Wow. I visited one year later and never knew. Incredible to see the valley under water.

I am sure nature can deal with the flood, so allow myself to enjoy the video. Magnificent.

WOW! I walked through some of that with a friend, just 4 months ago.. Beautiful even with the floods...

Even flooded like this, it still looks amazing.

I was near the south side that weekend and witnessed an ENTIRE tree floating downstream. Very powerful stuff

Wow ! Nature is so beautiful and brutal at the same time here.

I’m so exited to go now! I’m going to Yosemite this summer and it usually is very dry and luckily last year they had the water falls flowing. Last year there was a rain and thunder storm when I was camping and that made it some what green, but a flood would make it super green!🐻 🌲💦

Awesome video.

This is incredible, yet stunningly beautiful! Stay safe,

0:45 is just mind blowing cause I came here in 2018 during the heat wave. That area where the water was rushing was just a trickle compared to this, I had no idea the water could get so high. There were people all over the rocks below the bridge and around the floor of the falls

Great shots, Kris....Little Melissa muskrat pretty well bedraggled.RK/LK

Amazing footage. It is beautiful, but deadly. Thank you for sharing.

I would love to work at a place like Yosemite. I could be wrong, but how could you get tired of such natural beauty. And working on it’s behalf.

Beautiful!

Great video.

So sorry for the flood and the mess it brings but what a beautiful place. On my bucket list to see one day I hope.

Wow... incredible video💪👍

Wow! Good call closing the Valley.

Stayed 4 nights there last September, the most beautiful place I've ever seen. The cost? Deep breath........$6 per night in Camp 4 campground ; - )

Thanks

awesome footage

Damage is no fun but flooded or fair, the images are beautiful!

Can't wait to go visit Yosemite this summer our family vacation.

So beautiful. Its my bucket list to visit there

Love the power of nature! Wish there was a little more of that this winter.

Wow!!!! That sure is a lot of water. Still such a beautiful park.

Nice, we used to live close to Yosemite park when I was a kid. Would love to go back some day!!!

I miss Yosemite .grandma was a seamstress for all rangers uniforms. My cousin and would go every summer in the 70's and stay at her house across from the creek.

Beautiful.

They never said anything about this on the News :( Thank You for Sharing! Now, Subbed!!

Good job on the video

Looks like you guys have your hands full down there, Oregon coast here!

Scary flooding, but so beautiful to see. Right in my neck of the woods.

Such a beautiful park.

A few months before my dad died, he was in merced waiting for yosemite to open back up after the fires.

It’s always awesome to see nature at work.

I LOVE the determination of the guy who's riding a bike through a flood :D

Awesome vid

thank u for a look at spring thaw

I was just there at the end of Jan. So disappointed that Mirror Lake was dried up to a pencil thin stream... imagine how it looks now. Haha. Beautiful!

It's nice that the NPS is making videos, there are so few people today with cameras that take video, and no place to share them. :-0

Wow, I was here 3 days before this happened...I had blue skies and lovely weather.

Wow I was there that week and left that day... we were going to climb up to upper Yosemite falls that day thank gosh we had the opportunity to do it before!

Excited to see how green everything will be once the flood goes away!!

DAMN! You don't often think of Yosemite and flood in the same sentence.

Beautiful! Hopefully not too much damage from the huge volume of water.

Great video - thanks for the update! Seems like some of the crew are taking needless chances though. I don't think they'd be doing it if it was their truck/vehicle.

That place is beautiful...Even flooded...Would be awesome to see it someday ...