McConnell State Recreation Area is a shady, family‑friendly riverside park on the Merced River near Livingston that’s popular for swimming, fishing and relaxing on sandy river beaches.
Schooner Gulch State Beach, three miles south of Point Arena on California’s Mendocino Coast, is a scenic stretch of rocky headlands, sandy coves, and tidepools where Schooner Gulch Creek meets the Pacific and driftwood often accumulates along the shore.
Empire Mine State Historic Park preserves one of California’s most important Gold Rush sites in Grass Valley, where industrial‑scale mining operated for more than a century and produced more than five million ounces of gold before closing in the 1950s.
San Buenaventura State Beach (Ventura) is a broad, family‑friendly two‑mile Pacific shoreline beside downtown Ventura that stretches from the harbor and Marina Park up to the Ventura Pier and connects to a long paved bike‑and‑pedestrian path.
The Heights Casino is a Native American casino owned by the Trinidad Rancheria tribe, located at 27 Scenic Drive in Trinidad, California, perched on cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean just 5 minutes off Highway 101 and 23 miles north of Eureka.
The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, is a sprawling and famously eccentric Victorian mansion built by Sarah Winchester, widow of William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune.
Barona Resort & Casino is a tribal gaming and hospitality destination owned and operated by the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians, located at 1932 Wildcat Canyon Road in Lakeside, California, about 30 miles northeast of downtown San Diego in the scenic Barona Valley.
Will Rogers State Beach stretches 1.75 miles along Santa Monica Bay in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, named after humorist Will Rogers whose widow donated the land.
Alcatraz Island is a small rocky island in San Francisco Bay, California, most famous for its former use as a maximum-security federal prison between 1934 and 1963.
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain is a Native American casino resort owned by the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe of the Enterprise Rancheria and operated by Hard Rock International under a management agreement with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, located at 3317 Forty Mile Road in Wheatland, California, in Yuba County about 30 miles north of Sacramento.
Lombard Street in San Francisco, often called "the crookedest street in the world," is famous for a steep, one-block section featuring eight sharp hairpin turns that wind down the Russian Hill neighborhood.
Angel Island State Park is the largest natural island in San Francisco Bay, covering 740 acres off Tiburon in Marin County, California, with Mount Caroline Livermore rising to 788 feet and offering panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and the city skyline.
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park is a large, old‑growth redwood forest near Crescent City that protects towering coast redwoods, lush ferns and a winding stretch of the undammed Smith River, offering a classic redwood experience with dense canopy and moss‑draped trunks.
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a coastal redwood sanctuary in Humboldt County that protects vast stands of ancient coast redwoods, fern‑lined canyons and open meadows where Roosevelt elk graze, forming part of the larger Redwood National and State Parks system.
Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a vast redwood forest reserve in Northern California that protects the largest remaining contiguous stand of old‑growth coast redwoods in the world, including the famed Rockefeller Forest and numerous towering trees over 300 feet tall.
Santa Ysabel Casino, also known as Santa Ysabel Resort & Casino, was a small tribal gaming facility in Santa Ysabel, California, owned by the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel (Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians).
The California State Capitol Museum, housed in the historic 1874 State Capitol building at 1315 10th Street in downtown Sacramento, serves as both a living government seat and a free public museum managed by California State Parks, open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Malibu Lagoon State Beach (also called Surfrider Beach) sits where Malibu Creek meets the Pacific, forming a coastal lagoon and one of Southern California’s most famous right‑breaking surf spots.
