California State Parks List

The following is a list of California state parks ( USA ). There are 87 of them, the largest of them - Anza-Borrego-Desert , covers an area of more than 2371 km², the smallest - , covers an area of 0.656 km²; the oldest, , was founded in 1902, and the youngest, , was founded in 2009. All state parks are managed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation . In 2008 ^[1] –2011 ^[2] , a proposal was made to close several dozen state parks for financial reasons ^[3] , but many of them were able to defend their existence.

The list includes only state parks , but not similar conservation areas, such as the State Recreation Area , State Marine Reserve , State Historic Park , State Beach, etc. - in total, there are more than 200 such facilities in California ^[4] (more than 270 ) ^[5] .

The main attractions of many California state parks are forests and groves of giant sequoias , which naturally grow only on the coast (not further than 75 km from the ocean) of California (rarely found in southwestern Oregon ).

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State Parks

Title	County	Area, km²	Year of foundation	sights	Comments, links
Anza-Borrego-Desert	San Diego , Imperial and Riverside	2371,175	1933	Desert of colorado	California's Largest Park [1]
	Sonoma	20,607	1971	Obsidian rocks; abandoned mines of the 1900s, in which cobblestone was mined; Reservoir; a huge number of wildflowers.	[2]
	San mateo	17,033	1985	Island; a huge number of northern sea elephants , California sea lions , sea otters .	[3]
	Los Angeles	2,291	1993	Lots of yucca and juniper	[four]
	Shasta	23,998	1975	A huge amount of underground sources of drinking water. About two-thirds of the park is covered with jagged black basalt formed from geologically recent volcanic eruptions (2000-5000 years ago).	[five]
	Placeer	7,649	1976		[6]
	Santa cruz	73,046	1902	Lots of sequoias , the , waterfalls, and the hiking trail.	California's oldest state park [7]
	Butte and Glenn	1,412	1979	Sacramento and Rivers	[8]
	San diego	5,326	1972	Tijuana River	The park is located on the border of the USA and Mexico [9]
	Napa and Sonoma	8,057	1960	Sequoias farthest from the coast	[10]
	San mateo	19,134	1956	Sequoias	[eleven]
	Mendosino	9,453	1932	in the place of sawed sequoias, Little River	[12]
	Santa Barbara	11,279	1953	Santa Ines Range,	[13]
	Monterey	11,894	1979	Monterey Bay	A significant part of the park was destroyed , which raged in July – October 2016 [14]
	Santa cruz	18,709	1953	, River	[fifteen]
	Santa Clara and Stanislaus	360,834	1959	Ridge	California's Second Largest State Park [16]
	Merced	11,436	1982	San Joaquin Valley Grassy Communities	[17]
	Humboldt	1.74	1943	The River	[eighteen]
	Alpine	2,238	1959	Geothermal springs filling the swimming complex.	[19]
	Humboldt	9.13	1931	The largest lagoon system in the United States: , , .	[twenty]
Humboldt redwoods	Humboldt	209,024	1921	The world's largest sequoia forest, in which the grows - the fourth tallest tree in the world (height is more than 113 m).	In total, about 100 out of 137 known trees grow above 110 m in height. [21]
	El Dorado	8,697	1929	“ ”, Lighthouse, Lake Tahoe	The park is named after tycoon [22]
	Del norte	126,509	1925	Sequoias	[23]
	Del norte	42,209	1939	Smith River	The park is named after the pioneer Jedi Smith. [24]
	Monterey	15,224	1962	Falls	[25]
	Nevada and Placeer	13,326	1928	Museum "Emigrant Trail", a monument to pioneers, Lake Donner	The park is named after the pioneers of the Donner Party [26]
	Calaveras and Tualemi	26,296	1931	Two sequoia groves	[27]
	Shasta	15,803	1934	Wilderness Castle Crags Wilderness with cliffs up to 2000 m high	[28]
	Santa Clara , Santa Cruz and San Mateo	21,214	1968	Mountains	[29]
	San joaquin	1,044	1952	The River	[thirty]
	Lake	2,388	1949	Lake - California's Largest Freshwater Lake	[31]
	Orange	15,928	1979	The historic district , built on in the 1920s; chaparral canyons.	[32]
	San diego	99,929	1933	Ridge,	[33]
	Monterey	2,877	1994	Four lime kilns built in the late 1880s.	[34]
	Los Angeles and Ventura	10.17	1953	2.4 km long beach, Mountains	The park is named after theater, film and television actor, animator [35]
	Shasta	3,683	1920	Falls, Reservoir	[36]
	Mendosino	10,194	1949	The River, beaches, lake, dunes, , forests.	[37]
	Los Angeles	33,245	1974	The , Mountains	[38]
	Mendosino	21,335	1955	8 km long beach, dunes	[39]
Mount diablo	Contra Costa	81,439	1931	Mount Diablo	[40]
	Riverside	55,515	1930	Mount , accessible by the largest in the world.	[41]
	Marin	25,265	1928	Mount , Muir Forest , Amphitheater	[42]
	Mendosino	2,914	1977	River	[43]
	Mendosino	31,197	1972	River, two beaches, Ford House Museum	[44]
	San louis obispo	41.95	1934	There is a lot of shrub species , giving yellow flowers, which is why the park was called "Mountain of Gold".	[45]
	San louis obispo	11,262	1934	Two of the Nine Sisters : and ; Museum of Natural History .	[46]
	Mendosino	2,942	1928	River	[47]
Palomar mountain	San diego	7,725	1932	Mount , on which the Palomar Observatory is located.	[48]
	Humboldt	2,639	1930	Yurok Indians Village	The park was named after politician Patrick Bigan [49]
	Merced and Santa Clara	27,899	1995	Reservoir	Only one third of the park is freely accessible [50]
	Los Angeles	1,384	1949	San Gabriel Ridge; several , the most famous of which is .	The first documented case of gold discovery in California was recorded on the territory of the future park in 1842. [51]
	Plumas	17,903	1959	19th Century Gold Mining Museum	[52]
	Los Angeles	56,442	1966	Canyon, Mount , Mugu Rock	[53]
	San mateo	10,554	1945	The rivers Peters Creek , Fall Creek and , Falls	The park is named after Gaspard de Portola y Rovira and [54]
	Humboldt	57,413	1923	Canyon	[55]
	Monterey	5,629	1933	River	[56]
	Mendosino	5,281	1933		[57]
Red Rock Canyon	Core	102,487	1970	Colorful rocks, mostly red and green	[58]
	Humboldt	7,171	1922	The River and ; 9th tallest sequoia in the world	The park is named after politician [59]
	Napa , Sonoma and Lake	24,241	1949	Mount St. Helena	The park is named after writer Robert Lewis Stevenson. [60]
	San mateo	1,206	1980	Mount ; rare butterfly of the species .	[61]
	Sutter	7,224	2003	Three remnants up to 647 m high	As of 2016, the park was never open to visitors and did not even have an official name [62]
	Nevada	35,289	1979	The River and the , (opened in 1862), Independence Trail (for pedestrians and wheelchair users).	[63]
	Mendosino and Humboldt	32.12	1975		[64]
	Sonoma	23,002	1968		[65]
	Sonoma	40,541	1934	Beach	[66]
	Los Angeles	11,954	1957	Remainder "Saddle" 1113 m high	[67]
	Marin	10,955	1946		The park is named after entrepreneur [68]
	Santa cruz	41,371	1963	Secondary Forest of the Mountains; 80% of the park is a dense sequoia forest.	The epicenter of the devastating earthquake of 1989 was located in this park [69]
	Del norte	17,802	1983	Lake	[70]
	Marin	9,886	1950	Gulf of	[71]
	Los Angeles	51,257	1967		The park has over 60 entrances [72]
	Santa cruz	33,759	1974	Several ranches converted into museums	[73]
Washow meadows	El Dorado	2,541	1985	Echo Summit Pass	[74]
	Monterey	3,966	2009	Monterey Bay , (built 1917, pre-1994)	California's Youngest Park [75]
	Monterey and San Benito	0.656	1934	Mount , Observatory, Monterey Bay , and valleys, Ridge.	California's Smallest State Park [76]
	San louis obispo	3,027	2003		[77]
	Mendosino	3,302	1958	Sequoias of the Valley	[78]
	San louis obispo	9,344	1932	type mounds, radiant pine groves, fish of the species , remains of an Indian settlement of approx. 5900 years	[79]
	Marin	6,127	1976	The village of the 1880s, in which the Chinese were engaged shrimp ; of San Pablo Bay .	[80]
	Orange , Riverside, and San Bernardino	57,356	1981	Ridge	[81]
	Sonoma and Napa	17,871	1920	with an 8-meter waterfall; Bald Mountain ^[6]	[82]
	El Dorado	9,405	1965	Lake Tahoe , summer house (built in 1903) by the banker	From 1965 to 2003, the park was called Sugar Pine Point , but then the name was extended in honor of the politician Edwin Lewis Zberg [83]
	El Dorado	6,204	1953	Lake Tahoe , Fannett Island, 38-room 1929)	[84]
Angel island	Marin and San Francisco	3,059	1955	Lighthouse.	The park completely occupies the island of Angel [85]
	Monterey	19,287	1968	The mouth of the River; The wooden hut built in the early 1860s is the oldest building in the Big Sur area .	[86]
	San louis obispo	1,429	2000	Gulf of	[87]

Notes

↑ California State Park Closures (English) Video 0:04:06
↑ California officials announce closure of 70 state parks Archived on May 14, 2011. (English) on sacbee.com , May 13, 2011
↑ Park Closure List on parks.ca.gov , May 13, 2011 Archived from the original on December 17, 2011
↑ California State Parks You'll Find Right On The Beach on californiabeaches.com
↑ California State Parks on gocalifornia.about.com
↑ In California alone, there are , or “Bald.”

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Wikimedia Commons Has California State Park Media Files
California State Parks on parks.ca.gov
California State Parks Foundation on calparks.org
California's Parks at stateparks.com
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[1] California State Park Closures (English) Video 0:04:06

[2] California officials announce closure of 70 state parks Archived on May 14, 2011. (English) on sacbee.com , May 13, 2011

[3] Park Closure List on parks.ca.gov , May 13, 2011 Archived from the original on December 17, 2011

[4] California State Parks You'll Find Right On The Beach on californiabeaches.com

[5] California State Parks on gocalifornia.about.com

[6] In California alone, there are , or “Bald.”

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