Portola Redwoods State Park is a secluded 2,800‑acre redwood canyon in San Mateo County where cool, fern‑lined ravines and old‑growth and second‑growth coast redwoods shelter creeks that support coho salmon and steelhead trout.
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, located in the rural San Joaquin Valley near Earlimart in Tulare County, California, preserves Allensworth—the only town in the state founded, financed, financed, financed, and governed by African Americans in 1908 as a self-sufficient community for Black pioneers fleeing racial oppression.
Liberty Public Market in San Diego, located in the historic Liberty Station, is a vibrant, year-round public market offering a diverse range of artisanal foods, drinks, and crafts from local vendors.
Carlsbad State Beach, also known as Tamarack Beach, is a protected 44-acre public beach in Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, stretching from warm-water jetties south of Tamarack Avenue to Frazee Beach near Carlsbad Village, featuring wide sandy shores backed by coastal bluffs ideal for swimming, surfing, bodyboarding, scuba diving, fishing, and beachcombing.
The Walt Disney Family Museum, located in the historic Presidio of San Francisco, California, opened in 2009 and celebrates the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
Pfeiffer Beach, located in California’s Big Sur region within Los Padres National Forest, is famous for its stunning coastal scenery, striking rock formations, and unique patches of purple sand caused by manganese garnet eroding from nearby cliffs.
Saddleback Butte State Park protects a solitary, Joshua‑tree–dotted granite butte rising about 3,651 feet above the western Mojave Desert and preserves nearly 3,000 acres of high‑desert habitat on the Antelope Valley floor east of Lancaster.
Agua Caliente Casino Palm Springs is a premier Native American casino resort owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, located in downtown Palm Springs, California, built over historic hot mineral springs sacred to the tribe.
Donner Memorial State Park preserves the site and memory of the ill‑fated 1846–47 Donner Party and sits along the south shore of Donner Lake near Truckee in the Sierra Nevada, offering both a powerful history lesson and year‑round outdoor recreation.
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is a sprawling urban park covering over 1,000 acres, larger than New York City's Central Park, and stretching about three and a half miles from the city center to the Pacific Ocean.
George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area is a small, shady riverside park on the Merced River in the San Joaquin Valley that offers quiet camping, picnicking, swimming, fishing, and gentle hiking along more than a mile of river frontage.
Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park is a 566-acre preserve in northern Los Angeles County's Antelope Valley, California, about 20 miles west of Lancaster, protecting rare mature stands of Joshua trees and California junipers in their native Mojave Desert habitat, once widespread but now mostly cleared for agriculture and development.
Balboa Park in San Diego, California, is one of the oldest and most iconic urban parks in the United States, spanning 1,200 acres filled with gardens, museums, and cultural landmarks.
Salt Point State Park is a rugged, 6,000‑acre stretch of Sonoma County coastline where wind‑sculpted sandstone headlands, kelp‑dotted coves and tidal pools meet forested bluffs and pygmy‑forest pockets, offering dramatic ocean views and rich marine life.
South Carlsbad State Beach stretches three miles along Carlsbad Boulevard in Carlsbad, California, south of Carlsbad State Beach and adjacent to Batiquitos Lagoon, featuring wide sandy shores backed by eroding bluffs with a popular 220-site blufftop campground offering ocean views, showers, restrooms, a camp store, and stairs down to the water.
Mendocino Headlands State Park wraps around the seaside village of Mendocino and protects roughly 347 acres of dramatic coastal bluffs, secluded beaches, rocky islets and tidepools that offer sweeping Pacific views and frequent whale and seabird sightings.
