Bothe-Napa Valley State Park covers nearly 2,000 acres in the heart of Napa Valley near Calistoga, California, featuring the farthest inland coast redwoods found in any state park alongside Douglas-firs, tanoaks, madrones, maples, and oaks.
San Luis Reservoir is a large off‑stream lake in central California that stores water pumped from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to support irrigation, municipal supply, and the State and federal water projects, with a capacity of about two million acre‑feet and a long, irregular shoreline tucked into the Diablo Range near Pacheco Pass.
Plumas‑Eureka State Park preserves a historic Sierra mining district and surrounding high‑Sierra natural landscape near Blairsden, showcasing well‑preserved 19th‑century stamp mills, bunkhouses, blacksmith and miner’s buildings alongside meadows, conifer forests and clear mountain creeks.
Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, located in remote northeastern Shasta County, California, covers about 6,000 acres of dramatic wilderness featuring jagged black basalt lava flows from 3,000 to 5,000 years ago, freshwater springs, and brilliant aqua bays along converging waterways like Big Lake, Fall River, Tule River, Ja She Creek, and Lava Creek.
Carpinteria State Beach is a popular 62-acre protected beach in Santa Barbara County, California, 12 miles south of Santa Barbara, featuring a mile of wide white sand ideal for swimming, surf fishing, tidepool exploration, sunbathing, volleyball, birdwatching, hiking, biking, and beachcombing amid terraced bluffs and dune areas.
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown preserves an intact Sierra Railway roundhouse, turntable and locomotive shops dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offers daily guided roundhouse tours and seasonal excursion train rides behind historic steam and diesel locomotives.
Sonoma State Historic Park in Sonoma, California, comprises several historic sites clustered around Sonoma Plaza, including Mission San Francisco Solano—the northernmost of California's 21 Franciscan missions founded in 1823—Sonoma Barracks where the Bear Flag Revolt began in 1846, the Toscano Hotel, and General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's home called Lachryma Montis.
Folsom Lake State Recreation Area is a large, multi‑use park in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 25 miles east of Sacramento that surrounds Folsom Lake and nearby Lake Natoma and offers year‑round boating, fishing, swimming, hiking, cycling, equestrian trails, and picnic and camping facilities.
