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California National Historic Trail Top Attraction!
National Park in various states, CA USA
National Historic Trail The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840's and 1850's, the greatest mass migration in American history.
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Alcatraz Island Top Attraction!
National Park in San Francisco, CA USA
National Park Out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the island of Alcatraz is a world unto itself. Isolation, one of the constants of island life for any inhabitant - soldier, guard, prisoner, bird or plant - is a recurrent theme in the unfolding history of Alcatraz.
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Yosemite National Park Top Attraction!
National Park in Yosemite National Park, CA USA
One of the most spectacular and most visited national parks in North America For tens of thousands of years, humans have changed, and have been changed by, this place we now call Yosemite. The Ahwahneechee lived here for generations, followed by the arrival of Europeans in the mid-1800s.
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Channel Islands National Park Top Attraction!
National Park in Ventura, CA USA
National Park One of Ventura's most wondrous attractions, often refered to as the American Galapagos is accessible for multi-day camping trips. (14 miles off coast) Explore America's Galapagos One of Ventura's most wondrous attractions lies 14 miles out to sea.
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John Muir National Historic Site
National Park in Martinez, CA USA
National Historic Site The Site preserves the 14 room mansion where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914.
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Pinnacles National Monument
National Park in Paicines, CA USA
National Monument Rising out of the chaparral-covered Gabilan Mountains, east of central California's Salinas Valley, are the spectacular remains of an ancient volcano.
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Point Reyes National Seashore
National Park in Point Reyes, CA USA
National Park Point Reyes National Seashore contains unique elements of biological and historical interest in a spectacularly scenic panorama of thunderous ocean breakers, open grasslands, bushy hillsides and forested ridges.
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Rosie The Riveter Wwii Home Front National Historical Park
National Park in Richmond, CA USA
National Historical Park The World War II Home Front is a significant chapter in Americas history. Fully engaged in winning World War II, American women, minorities, and men worked toward a common goal in a manner that has been unequaled since.
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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
National Park in San Francisco, CA USA
National Park preserving America's maritime heritage San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s fleet of floating National Historic Landmarks, includes the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha (exhibit “Cargo is King”); the 1895 schooner C.A.
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
National Park in Thousand Oaks, CA USA
National Recreation Area Stretching from the Oxnard Plain to the Hollywood Hills and located to the west of the Los Angeles basin, the Santa Monica Mountains offer myriad recreation and education opportunities.
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Joshua Tree National Park
National Park in Twentynine Palms, CA USA
National Park For a first-time visitor the desert may appear bleak and drab. Viewed from the road, the desert only hints at its vitality. Closer examination reveals a fascinating variety of plants and animals.
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