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The park is named after a sandstone formation called Castle Rock. The forest here is lush and mossy, crisscrossed by 32 miles (51 km) of hiking trails. These trails are part of an even more extensive trail system that links the Santa Clara and San Lorenzo valleys with Castle Rock State Park, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, and the Pacific Coast.
Castle Rock Regional Recreation Era is an attraction for many outdoor activity opportunities such as hiking, climbing, swimming, and viewing wildlife. A portion of the park is closed every year for several months in order to protect a peregrine falcon nesting site. [1]
In 1943 the State of California purchased 925 acres of the Castle Rock Springs property, which was the beginning of Castle Crags State Park. [4] [5] Flora A panoramic view of Castle Crags from inside Castle Crags State Park. Two native species of plants which are endemic to Castle Crags are: Castle Crags ivesia (Ivesia longibracteata)
The Castle Dome Trail is a strenuous hiking trail into the crags proper and passes near Indian Springs, a natural hillside spring with views of the crags. The trail ends after 2.7 miles (4.3 km) at a notch just west of Castle Dome (4,829 feet (1,472 m)), [ 7 ] the southernmost of the crags, providing an unobstructed view of Mount Shasta and the ...
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Castle Rock State Park (Illinois) This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 00:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
The park has over 130 km (81 mi) of trails. Some of these trails link Big Basin to Castle Rock State Park and the eastern reaches of the Santa Cruz range. The Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail threads its way through the park along Waddell Creek to Waddell Beach, and the adjacent Theodore J. Hoover Natural Preserve, a freshwater marsh. [3]
Castle Rock State Park was one of eleven state parks slated to close indefinitely on November 1, 2008, due to budget cuts by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. [2] After delay, which restored funding for some of the parks, a proposal to close seven state parks and a dozen state historic sites, including Castle Rock, went ahead on ...