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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 ...
Andrew P. Hill. Andrew Putnam Hill (August 9, 1853–September 3, 1922) was a Californian painter and photographer best known for successfully leading an effort from 1899 to 1902 to save a forest of large redwoods in Big Basin, California, as a public park, the first in what became the California State Park System .
Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km 2) [2] of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains ...
San Jacinto Peak ( / ˌsæn həˈsɪntoʊ, - dʒəˈ -, - jəˈ -/ SAN hə-SIN-toh, - jə-, - yə-; often designated Mount San Jacinto) is a 10,834 ft (3,302 m) peak in the San Jacinto Mountains, in Riverside County, California. Lying within Mount San Jacinto State Park it is the highest both in the range and the county, and serves as the ...
Painted Dunes and Fantastic Lava Beds as seen from the edge of Cinder Cone's crater. Lassen Volcanic National Park is an American national park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak, the largest plug dome volcano in the world and the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range. [3]
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.
8,215 acres (33.24 km 2) Established. 1974. 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 ...
William Penn Mott Jr. (October 19, 1909 – September 21, 1992), [3] was a trained landscape architect who rose to direct the California Department of Parks and Recreation and U.S. National Park Service. He earned bachelor and master degrees from Michigan State University and University of California, respectively.