Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The park is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. [1] As one of the largest urban parks and regional open spaces in the Greater Los Angeles Area, many have called it "L.A.'s Central Park". [2] The 401-acre (1.62 km 2) park was established in 1984. [3]
California State Parks is the state park system for the U.S. state of California. The system is administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department under the California Natural Resources Agency. The California State Parks system is the largest state park system in the United States. [5]
Henry W. Coe State Park (often known simply as Henry Coe or Coe Park) is a state park of California, United States, preserving a vast tract of the Diablo Range. The park is located closest to the city of Morgan Hill , and is located in both Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties.
In 1938, Al Strowbridge visited the Anderson Valley Unity Club (a local women's service organization) and spoke to them about the redwood forests of California; from that time forward the Unity Club worked to save the remaining groves of redwoods, and in 1958 the California State Park system bought approximately 600 acres of land with two miles ...
The Corvina Beach Campground, is situated near the center of the park. [3] The recreation area was one of the 48 California state parks proposed for closure in January 2008 by California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of a deficit reduction program, not enacted then. [4] The Recreation Area continues to be open to the public.
The largest is Anza-Borrego State Park at 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2), making it one of the largest state parks in the country. The smallest, Watts Towers, owned by the State Park system but managed by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, [12] is a mere 0.1-acre (400 m 2). Sunset at Bolsa Chica State Beach
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
Chino Hills State Park is a state park of California, in the United States. It is located in the Chino Hills , foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains . It is a critical link in the Chino– Puente Hills wildlife corridor , and a major botanical habitat reserve for resident and migrating wildlife.