Location ID: #7750
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This historic park, located in Los Angeles County where the Simi Hills meet the Santa Susana Mountains, is rich in natural, historical and cultural significance. Here in the western part of the Transverse Ranges, the land is dominated by high, ...
Location ID: #7654
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The Malibu Lagoon is where Malibu Creek meets the Pacific Ocean. Malibu's Surfrider Beach has a long standing as a premier surfing beach.
On the east side of Malibu Creek Bridge, the famous Malibu Pier allows for excellent saltwater fishing. On ...
Location ID: #10028093
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Point Dume Natural Preserve and State Beach is a scenic point that juts out into the ocean just north of Santa Monica Bay. It is one of the last remaining open coastal terraces and bluffs in southern California. The Point is a day-use area with two ...
Location ID: #1575
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La Piedra is a sandy and rocky beach with cliffs. Nature reserved as well as residential
Location ID: #1550
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This sandy state beach provides nature reserve landscape with a lifeguard tower. Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach is actually three separate small coves that offer day-use visitation with great scenic beauty and solitude for those willing and ...
Location ID: #7544
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This is a state-owned beach that is managed and operated by the city of Newport Beach who call it Corona Del Mar Main Beach and charge a fee for parking. Corona Del Mar State Beach is on the east side of the Newport Harbor channel entrance in the ...
Location ID: #7813
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Will Rogers State Beach extends one and three-quarters mile along the shore. The beach features swimming and skin diving. Facilities include volleyball courts, playground and gymnastic equipment, as well as a bike path and walkway. A number of ...
Location ID: #7606
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San Simeon State Park is one of the oldest units of the California State Park System. The coastal bluffs and promontories of the scenic park offer unobstructed views of the ocean and rocky shore. The park includes the Santa Rosa Creek Natural ...
Location ID: #7589
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The purpose of the Estero Bluffs SP, in San Luis Obispo County, is to preserve and protect a rich, diverse and particularly scenic area of the Pacific Ocean coast, with sea stacks and intertidal areas, a substantial area of wetlands, low bluffs and ...
Location ID: #7752
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"Mountain Quarry Bridge", "Railroad bridge", and finally the name, "No Hands Bridge", which it is known by today, was initially built by the Pacific Portland Cement Company to accommodate trains servicing an upstream rock quarry. It was the first ...
Location ID: #7781
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It is a short hike through the woods, across open bluffs, and past seasonal wildflowers down to the beach. Low tide is the best time to visit.
On the high bluffs above the beach there is an open meadow with scattered stands of alders. ...
Location ID: #10283738
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Tolowa Dunes encompasses ocean beach, river, open and vegetated sand dunes, wooded ridges, and wetlands. A diverse assortment of birds, animals and plant life thrive here, and the area serves as an important stopover on the Pacific flyway for ...
Location ID: #7760
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At the "gateway to the tall trees country," the area offers camping, picnicking, hiking, fishing, and swimming on the South Fork of the Eel River which winds through the park for almost two miles. One of the few virgin redwood stands remaining in ...
Location ID: #7756
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Smithe Redwoods State Natural Reserve contains the beautiful Frank and Bess Smithe Grove of redwoods. The site was formerly a private resort. The park features a 60-foot waterfall, picnic area, and fishing and swimming in the south fork of the Eel ...
Location ID: #7755
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The rugged wilderness that once characterized the entire Mendocino Coast can still be explored and enjoyed in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park. Since there are no main highways near the coast in this vicinity, the area has come to be called the ...
Location ID: #1122
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1,500 acre State park complete with a pristine lake, waterfall and of course beautiful and imposing giant redwoods.
Location ID: #7699
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Aquired as a wayside campground, Reynolds Wayside campground eliminated the campground in 1976 when US Highway 101 was constructed. Reynolds is now a wayside park that is located in Mendocino County, and the remaining portion is to preserve and ...
Location ID: #7648
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Little River State Beach features dunes and a broad open beach. The beach is bordered on the north by Little River and on the south by Clam Beach County Park which provides camping and day use facilities.
Location ID: #10037789
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The park has about 20 miles of hiking and nature trails,and river access. This park, along with Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and the National Park Service's Redwood National Park, are managed cooperatively by the National Park Service and the ...
Location ID: #10037800
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Forty miles north of Eureka, the park includes Big Lagoon, Stone Lagoon, and Freshwater Lagoon, as well as Dry Lagoon, which is now a marsh, bordered by dunes, forests, prairies, and coastal scrub. With such varied habitats, wildlife thrives. On a ...
Location ID: #10037794
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Humboldt Redwoods State Park encompasses nearly 53,000 acres, of which over 17,000 are untouched old growth coast redwoods. The Drury-Chaney Loop and the adjacent Grieg-French-Bell Trail are most notable for the extraordinarily plush layer of ...
Location ID: #7605
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Adjacent to Humboldt Lagoons State Park, this area is a popular place for visitors who like to fish. The use of small boats is allowed.
The park is 32 miles north of Eureka on U.S. 101.
Location ID: #7592
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Fort Humboldt is situated on a bluff overlooking Humboldt Bay. This remote military post was established in 1853 to assist in conflict resolution between Native Americans and gold-seekers and settlers who had begun flooding into the area after the ...
Location ID: #10037788
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Ground cover is dense with a wide range of species. Vegetation is predominately red alder. This park, along with Prairie Creek, Jedediah Smith, and the National Park Service's Redwood National Park, are managed cooperatively by the National Park ...