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Provides access to the Castle Crags Wilderness, with its 6,000-foot-tall (1,800 m) rock crags. [ 49] Castle Rock State Park. State park. Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo. 5,242. 2,121. 1968. Encompasses a wild forest with rock climbing opportunities along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The California State Parks system is headquartered at the California Natural Resources Agency, in Sacramento. Responsible for almost one-third of California's scenic coastline (280 miles), California State Parks manages the state's finest coastal wetlands, estuaries, beaches, and dune systems. California State Parks contains the largest and ...
827 [ 1] Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz. The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped ...
The United Nations designated the Redwood National and State Parks a World Heritage Site in 1980. The evaluation committee noted cooperative management and ongoing research in the parks by Humboldt State University and other partners. [69] The parks are within the California Coast Ranges and their resources are considered irreplaceable. [70]
51,651 acres (209.02 km 2) Established. 1921. Governing body. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of coast redwoods. It is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Eureka ...
The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-rich Central Valley is set to open June 12 as California's 281st state park. California announces first new state park in a decade ...
Governing body. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Malibu Creek State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving the Malibu Creek canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. The 8,215-acre (3,324 ha) park was established in 1974. [ 1] Opened to the public in 1976, the park is also a component of Santa Monica Mountains ...
List. Anderson Marsh State Historic Park. Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park. Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park. Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park. Bodie State Historic Park. California Citrus State Historic Park. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park.