California State Parks : A Complete Recreation Guide,9780898867626

California State Parks : A Complete Recreation Guide

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780898867626
ISBN10: 0898867622
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Mountaineers Books
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Summary

This essential guide covers all 239 of California's state parks, preserves, and recreation areas officially open to the public. It details everything you need to know to choose among them: maps and directions; information on all types of year-round activities; park seasons, hours, fees and facilities; and facts about each park's plants, wildlife, history and geology. You'll find information where to go boating, camping, hiking, swimming, fishing, skiing, picnicking, and more. Don't explore California without it!

Table of Contents

Introduction 9(15)
North Coast
15(58)
Pelican State Beach
15(1)
Lakes Earl and Talawa
15(1)
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
16(2)
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
18(1)
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
19(2)
Humboldt Lagoons State Park---Harry A. Merlo State Recreation Area
21(1)
Patrick's Point State Park
22(1)
Trinidad and Little River State Beaches
23(2)
Azalea State Reserve
25(1)
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
25(1)
Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
26(1)
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
27(2)
Benbow Lake State Recreation Area
29(1)
Richardson Grove State Park
30(1)
Sinkyone Wilderness State Park
31(3)
Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area---Smithe Redwoods State Reserve
34(2)
Westport---Union Landing State Beach
36(2)
Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area
38(1)
MacKerricher State Park
38(2)
Jug Handle and Caspar Headlands State Reserves---Caspar State Beach
40(2)
Russian Gulch State Park
42(2)
Mendocino Headlands State Park
44(1)
Van Damme State Park
45(2)
Montgomery Woods State Reserve
47(1)
Greenwood Creek State Beach
47(2)
Hendy Woods State Park---Navarro River Redwoods
49(1)
Manchester State Beach
50(1)
Clear Lake State Park
51(1)
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park
52(2)
Schooner Gulch
54(1)
Mailliard Redwoods State Reserve
54(1)
Salt Point State Park---Kruse Rhododendron State Reserve
55(2)
Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
57(1)
Fort Ross State Historic Park
58(1)
Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve---Austin Creek State Recreation Area
59(2)
Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park---Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
61(2)
Annadel State Park
63(2)
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
65(2)
Sonoma Coast State Beach
67(2)
Jack London State Historic Park
69(1)
Petaluma Adobe and Sonoma State Historic Parks
70(3)
Shasta Cascades
73(16)
Castle Crags State Park
73(1)
Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park
74(1)
Shasta State Historic Park
75(1)
McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park
76(1)
Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park
77(3)
William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park
80(1)
Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area---Irvine Finch River Access---Bidwell---Sacramento River State Park
80(1)
Plumas Eureka State Park
81(3)
Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park
84(1)
Lake Oroville State Recreation Area
85(4)
San Francisco Bay Area
89(46)
Tomales Bay State Park
89(1)
Olompali State Historic Park
90(1)
Samuel P. Taylor State Park
91(2)
China Camp State Park
93(2)
Mount Tamalpais State Park
95(1)
Angel Island State Park
96(2)
Benicia State Recreation Area
98(1)
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
99(1)
Mount Diablo State Park
100(3)
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area
103(1)
Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area
104(1)
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park
104(2)
Pacifica, Gray Whale Cove, and Montara State Beaches---Point Montara Light Station
106(2)
Half Moon Bay State Beaches---Cowell Ranch State Beach
108(1)
Burleigh Murray Ranch
109(1)
San Gregorio, Pomponio, Pescadero, and Bean Hollow State Beaches
109(2)
Portola Redwoods State Park
111(1)
Butano State Park
112(3)
Castle Rock State Park
115(2)
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
117(3)
Ano Nuevo State Reserve---Pigeon Point Lighthouse
120(3)
The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park
123(1)
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
124(3)
Wilder Ranch State Park
127(2)
Natural Bridges, Lighthouse Field, and Twin Lakes State Beaches
129(1)
Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
130(1)
New Brighton and Seacliff State Beaches
131(2)
Manresa and Sunset State Beaches
133(2)
Central Valley
135(14)
Colusa-Sacramento River State Recreation Area
135(1)
Woodland Opera House State Historic Park
135(1)
Brannan Island and Franks Tract State Recreation Areas
135(1)
Chaw'se Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
136(1)
Caswell Memorial State Park
137(2)
Turlock Lake State Recreation Area
139(1)
George J. Hatfield and McConnell State Recreation Areas
139(2)
San Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area
141(1)
Great Valley Grasslands State Park
142(1)
Millerton Lake State Recreation Area
143(2)
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park
145(1)
Tule Elk State Reserve
146(1)
Fort Tejon State Historic Park
147(2)
Gold Country
149(18)
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
149(1)
South Yuba River State Park
150(3)
Empire Mine State Historic Park
153(2)
Auburn State Recreation Area
155(1)
Folsom Lake State Recreation Area---Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
156(3)
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
159(2)
Sacramento's State Parks
161(2)
Delta Meadows River Park
163(1)
Columbia State Historic Park
163(2)
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
165(2)
High Sierra
167(18)
Donner Memorial State Park
167(1)
Tahoe State Recreation Area---Burton Creek State Park
168(1)
Sugar Pine Point State Park
169(2)
D. L. Bliss and Emerald Bay State Parks
171(3)
Lake Valley State Recreation Area---Washoe Meadows State Park
174(1)
Grover Hot Springs State Park
175(1)
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
176(3)
Bodie State Historic Park
179(1)
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
180(2)
Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park
182(3)
Central Coast
185(44)
Henry W. Coe State Park
185(2)
Pacheco State Park
187(2)
Zmudowski, Moss Landing, and Salinas River State Beaches
189(1)
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park
190(1)
Fremont Peak State Park
191(1)
Marina State Beach
192(1)
Monterey and Asilomar State Beaches
192(1)
Monterey State Historic Park
193(1)
Carmel River State Beach---Point Lobos State Reserve
194(3)
Garrapata State Park
197(2)
Point Sur Light Station State Historic Park
199(2)
Andrew Molera State Park
201(1)
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
202(2)
Julia Pfeiffer Burns and Limekiln State Parks
204(2)
Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument---Hearst Memorial State Beach
206(1)
San Simeon State Park
207(1)
Cayucos and Morro Strand State Beaches
208(2)
Morro Bay State Park
210(1)
Montana de Oro State Park
211(3)
Los Osos Oaks State Reserve
214(1)
Pismo State Beach---Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area
215(2)
Point Sal State Beach
217(2)
La Purisima Mission State Historic Park
219(1)
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
220(1)
Gaviota State Park
220(2)
Refugio and El Capitan State Beaches
222(1)
El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
223(1)
Carpinteria State Beach
224(1)
Emma Wood, San Buenaventura, McGrath, and Oxnard State Beaches
225(1)
Point Mugu State Park
225(4)
Los Angeles County
229(20)
Tomo-Kahni/Tehachapi Project
229(2)
Antelope Valley California Poppy State Reserve---Ripley Desert Woodland State Park
231(1)
Antelope Valley Indian Museum
231(2)
Saddleback Butte State Park
233(2)
Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
235(1)
Los Encinos State Historic Park
236(1)
Leo Carrillo State Beach
237(1)
Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beaches
238(1)
Malibu Creek State Park
238(3)
Point Dume State Beach
241(1)
Malibu Lagoon State Beach
241(2)
Topanga State Park
243(2)
Will Rogers State Historic Park
245(1)
Will Rogers, Santa Monica, and Dockweiler State Beaches
246(1)
Pio Pico State Historic Park
247(2)
Orange Country
249(6)
Bolsa Chica and Huntington State Beaches
249(1)
Corona del Mar State Beach
249(1)
Crystal Cove State Park
250(2)
Doheny State Beach
252(1)
San Clemente State Beach
252(3)
Inland Empire
255(10)
Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area
255(1)
Chino Hills State Park
256(3)
California Citrus State Historic Park
259(1)
Lake Perris State Recreation Area
259(2)
Mount San Jacinto State Park
261(4)
San Diego County
265(14)
San Onofre State Beach
265(1)
Palomar Mountain State Park
265(2)
Carlsbad, South Carlsbad, San Elijo, and Cardiff State Beaches
267(1)
San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park
268(1)
Torrey Pines State Beach and State Reserve
269(3)
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
272(2)
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
274(1)
Silver Strand State Beach
275(1)
Border Field State Park
276(3)
Deserts
279(14)
Red Rock Canyon State Park
279(1)
Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
280(2)
Salton Sea State Recreation Area
282(1)
Indio Hills Palms
283(2)
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
285(4)
Picacho State Recreation Area
289(4)
Appendix: For More Information 293(4)
Index 297

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