The coastal redwoods of California are a popular place to visit but destruction by wildfires means work is needed to restore parks. Jana Höffner/Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg/dpa Nearly five ...
California is world-famous for its beaches, from the so-called "American Riviera" around Santa Barbara to the ritzy "Billionaire's Beach" in Malibu. If the state has one natural feature that can ...
California is a land of striking geographic contrasts—towering mountains rise alongside lush forests, while deserts brush up against fertile agricultural valleys. You can carve through snow on glacier ...
PLUS HIKES, all with a guide at the lead, will pop up at over 60 California State Parks on Jan. 1, 2026. Those parks include ...
BOULDER CREEK — California’s oldest state park — Big Basin Redwoods — thrived for 118 years, but it took less than 24 hours for almost all of the 18,000-acre property to go up in smoke. In the early ...
Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the ...
Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitor center ...
The First Day Hikes interactive webpage (parks.ca.gov/FirstDayHikes) lets you easily search for hikes by park name, region or by clicking directly on the map. The site will be updated regularly as ...