Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area is a compact 45-acre park in Mendocino County, California, nestled at 1,700 feet elevation in the Coastal Range near the South Fork Eel River's headwaters, featuring a serene grove of towering coast redwoods, ferns, and lush undergrowth.
Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve is a protected marsh and tidal shoreline on the east side of San Francisco Bay between Oakland and Emeryville that preserves roughly 100–104 acres of crescent‑shaped coastal wetlands and pickleweed marsh near the foot of Powell Street.
Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) near Rancho Cordova is a large off‑highway vehicle park that offers varied terrain—open grasslands, rolling hills, cobbled mine tailings and purpose‑built tracks—across roughly 1,300 acres, with about 800+ acres available for riding.
Win-River Resort & Casino is Northern California's premier tribal gaming destination in Redding, owned by the Redding Rancheria tribe and conveniently located just off Interstate 5 between Redding and Anderson.
Jug Handle State Natural Reserve, on the Mendocino Coast between Mendocino and Fort Bragg, protects a rare sequence of five marine terraces that record roughly 100,000 years of ecological succession, so a single hike passes through coastal prairie, mixed forests, redwoods and the unusual Hans Jenny pygmy forest on the oldest terrace.
El Capitán State Beach is a scenic coastal park on the Gaviota Coast about 17–20 miles west of Santa Barbara that features a broad sandy beach, rocky tidepools, sycamore‑and‑oak shaded meadows, and dramatic blufftop views where visitors swim, surf, fish, picnic, and camp.
San Francisco, California, was founded in 1776 when Spanish colonists established a military outpost called the Presidio and a nearby mission named Mission San Francisco de Asís, also known as Mission Dolores.
Placerita Canyon Nature Center sits in the Placerita Canyon Natural Area near Newhall and protects a cool oak‑and‑riparian canyon ecosystem with sycamores, willows and seasonal streams while interpreting local natural and cultural history for visitors.
The Broad is a contemporary art museum located on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, established by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and opened in 2015.
Dockweiler Beach (Dockweiler State Beach) is a broad, popular Los Angeles shoreline located west of LAX in Playa del Rey that spans roughly 3.7 miles of sandy coast and offers a wide paved beach path, lifeguarded swimming areas at times, volleyball courts, picnic areas, and dozens of coin‑operated fire rings for evening bonfires.
Border Field State Park Beach marks California's southernmost coastal point in San Diego County, just 15 miles south of downtown San Diego at the U.S.-Mexico border near Imperial Beach, encompassing dunes, salt marshes, and a 1.5-mile stretch of light brown sand backed by the Tijuana River estuary wetlands.
Fort Ord Dunes State Park is a coastal preserve on the Monterey Bay near Marina that protects dunes, blufftop terraces, and about four miles of shoreline where visitors hike, bike, birdwatch, and view seals and shorebirds while learning about the site’s military history as part of the former Fort Ord.
Mission Santa Cruz is the 12th of California’s Spanish Franciscan missions, founded in 1791 by Father Fermín Lasuén and named for the Holy Cross; the original adobe complex on the San Lorenzo River was repeatedly damaged by floods and earthquakes, so today a replica mission church and adjacent historic buildings stand near the original site and serve as an active parish and visitor destination.
Hendy Woods State Park is a riverside redwood park in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley that protects two old‑growth groves (Big Hendy and Little Hendy) with some trees over 300 feet tall and possibly a thousand years old.
Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, began in the 1920s as a roadside berry stand founded by Walter and Cordelia Knott, who sold berries, preserves, and pies.
Navarro River Redwoods State Park is an 11‑mile ribbon of second‑growth redwood forest along the Navarro River on the Mendocino coast, where a dense redwood tunnel of towering trees opens out to Navarro Beach at the river mouth.
Harrah's Northern California is a Native American casino owned by the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians and managed by Caesars Entertainment under the Harrah's brand, located at 4650 Coal Mine Road in Ione, California, in Amador County about 32 miles southeast of Sacramento.
