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State (California Department of Parks and Recreation) The largest desert state park in the nation. [4] Audubon Canyon: 1968: Marin: Private The largest known nesting area for great blue herons and great and snowy egrets on the Pacific Coast. [5]
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley , after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k ...
The coastal side of the range rises directly from the shoreline, with oceanfront ridges rising directly 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m) to the crest of the coastal range. Big Sur's Cone Peak, at an elevation of 5,155 feet (1,571 m), is only 3 miles (4.8 km) from the ocean and is the tallest coastal mountain in the contiguous United States.
The beauty of living in California is that no matter which direction you’re headed, you are always in close proximity to either the beach, mountains or desert. In fact, you can technically hit the
Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
Cliffs along California’s northernmost coast have been eroding faster than the more populated bluffs of Southern California — one of many conclusions highlighted in a new map and study that ...
Sanhedrin Mountains in the Mendocino Range with California mixed evergreen forest habitat. The Mendocino Range rises from the California North Coast in southern Humboldt County, to include Bear Mountain, Rainbow Ridge and Gypsy Mountain of the Mattole Range, and Grasshopper Peak, which is the dominant mountain within Humboldt Redwoods State Park.