Jack London State Historic Park preserves Jack London’s former Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen, a roughly 1,400‑acre landscape of vineyards, oak woodlands and ranch buildings where the writer lived, farmed and wrote from 1905 until his death in 1916.
Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area is a 608-acre park in northeastern Alameda County, California, near Byron and Livermore at the northern end of the California Aqueduct in the San Joaquin Valley, where strong winds power water pumping for Southern California.
Lucky Bear Casino is a small Native American casino owned and operated by the Hoopa Valley Tribe, located at 12510 State Highway 96 in Hoopa, California, within the Tsewenaldin Shopping Center alongside the Trinity River in Humboldt County.
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, is renowned worldwide for its extraordinary private art collection amassed by industrialist Norton Simon over 30 years.
The Aquarium of the Bay, located on San Francisco's historic waterfront at Pier 39, focuses on the local aquatic life of the San Francisco Bay and nearby watersheds, stretching as far as the Sierra Mountains.
California Indian Heritage Center State Park is a developing 51-acre site at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in West Sacramento, Yolo County, California, designed as a vibrant hub for celebrating the living cultures of California's more than 100 Indigenous tribes rather than a traditional museum.
Refugio State Beach is a palm‑lined, sheltered cove on the Gaviota Coast about 20–30 minutes west of Santa Barbara, known for calm waters, scenic sunsets and a family‑friendly campground with roughly 66 tent and group sites.
Pío Pico State Historic Park (El Ranchito) preserves the restored adobe home and gardens of Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, offering a compact, interpretive glimpse into mid‑19th‑century ranch life on a small historic parcel now surrounded by suburban Whittier.
Sunset Boulevard in California is one of Los Angeles' most iconic streets, stretching about 22 to 24 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades.
Pescadero State Beach is a scenic, roughly one‑to‑two mile stretch of San Mateo County coastline on Highway 1 where Pescadero Creek meets the Pacific, featuring sandy coves, rocky cliffs, tidepools and extensive coastal dunes that back the shore.
Sonoma Coast State Park stretches 17 miles along the Pacific shoreline in Sonoma County from Bodega Head south of Jenner to just north of Bodega Bay, encompassing over 10,000 acres of rugged cliffs, sandy beaches, hidden coves, arches, and coastal prairie atop marine terraces.
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park is a compact 7.5-acre preserve in California's Santa Ynez Mountains, about 11 miles northwest of Santa Barbara off Highway 154, safeguarding a small sandstone cave filled with vibrant Chumash rock art dating back up to 1,000 years.
Marina State Beach in Marina sits on Monterey Bay and is known for its high dunes, broad sandy shore and steady coastal winds that make it a top spot for hang‑gliding, kite flying and surfing while offering scenic sunsets and frequent sightings of dolphins and migrating whales.
Point Mugu State Park is a coastal and backcountry park on the western edge of the Santa Monica Mountains that combines about five miles of ocean shoreline, sandy beaches and dunes with rugged chaparral‑covered hills, two seasonal river canyons and more than 60–70 miles of hiking trails.
Kruse Rhododendron State Natural Reserve is a small, quiet coastal woodland north of Jenner that protects second‑growth redwood and Douglas‑fir forest carpeted in spring with spectacular pink blooms of native rhododendrons.
Ed Z’berg Sugar Pine Point State Park (commonly called Sugar Pine Point) is a large Lake Tahoe shoreline park on the lake’s western shore near Tahoma that protects roughly 2,000–2,500 acres of mixed conifer forest, meadows, and nearly two miles of sandy and rocky shoreline.
Franks Tract State Recreation Area is a flooded island complex in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta accessible only by boat that formed when former farm and peatland were inundated and now features shallow, wind‑exposed waters and remnant levees used mainly for fishing, boating, and seasonal waterfowl hunting.
