There are so many epic National Parks near Los Angeles, California! From epic National Parks to interesting historic sites ...

California's geographical diversity is by far its greatest asset. It's rare that in one state you can hit up the beach, hike mountains, explore dense forests and wander through the desert.

California is home to five less famous national parks that saw fewer than 650,000 recreational visitors in 2023. Lassen Volcanic National Park, Redwood National Park, and Pinnacles National Park ...

If you want to see redwoods—Redwood National and State Parks is one the best places to see redwoods in California. Wait, ...

Across California are stunning destinations for campers, from the desert-scape of Joshua Tree National Park to the vast Sierra National Forest. Yet five places in California were named the ...

On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a newborn crater, they felt the ground tremble.

With more than 60 national parks, plus hundreds of national monuments, seashores, preserves, battlefields, and more, our National Park System offers visitors more than 85 million acres of ...

It might come as a surprise that California’s crown jewel national parks — Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Joshua Tree and Yosemite — struggle with some of the dirtiest air of any parks in the nation.

Visitors flocked to California’s nine national parks last year in numbers not seen since the pandemic, new federal data show. About 12,160,000 people visited national parks in California in 2024 ...