List of California state parks

This is the list of state parks in the U.S. state of California. In June 2009, there were 279 state parks in California, whose maintenance amounts to 143 million U.S. dollars. 2008 were 80 million state park visitors are counted, who were able to discover a wide range of topics from ecology, archeology or ethnic culture in Redwoodwäldern, ghost towns or museums. Around 2,000 paid staff take care of in the California State Parks to preserve and protect nature, landscape, buildings and infrastructure.

In June 2009, the California Legislature plans were known, after which up to 220 of the 279 state parks are threatened with closure, to reduce the budget deficit. The savings would in order of magnitude of 0.6 % of the total deficit, the concrete implementations were not yet formulated. The 59 state parks, which are to be retained, throw from measurable gains. Opponents of the closure likely instead that every dollar invested would bring the average 2.35 -fold to yield in the field of state parks.

The closure plans were more concrete and in May 2011 put Gov. Jerry Brown, a concept that will be closed after the 70 parks in the summer of 2012, which were selected so that 92 % of visitors find open parks and preserved by entrance fees 94 % of the revenue. The administration seeks nonprofit organizations that could take over as the carrier individual parks on the closure list.

  • Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area
  • Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park
  • Albany State Marine Reserve
  • Anderson Marsh State Historic Park
  • Andrew Molera State Park
  • Angel Iceland State Park
  • Annadel State Park
  • Año Nuevo State Reserve
  • Año Nuevo State Park
  • Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
  • Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park
  • Anza -Borrego Desert State Park
  • Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve
  • Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park
  • Asilomar State Beach
  • Auburn State Recreation Area
  • Austin Creek State Recreation Area
  • Azalea State Reserve
  • Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park
  • Bean Hollow State Beach
  • Benbow Lake State Recreation Area
  • Benicia State Recreation Area
  • Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
  • Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area
  • Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park
  • Bidwell - Sacramento River State Park
  • Big Basin Redwoods State Park
  • Big River State Park
  • Bodie State Historic Park
  • Bolsa Chica State Beach
  • Border Field State Park
  • Bothe - Napa Valley State Park
  • Brannan Iceland State Recreation Area
  • Burleigh H. Murray Ranch
  • Burton Creek State Park
  • Butano State Park
  • Calaveras Big Trees State Park
  • California Citrus State Historic Park
  • California Mining and Mineral Museum
  • California State Capitol
  • California State Capitol Museum
  • California State Indian Museum
  • California State Railroad Museum
  • Candlestick Point State Recreation Area
  • Cardiff State Beach
  • Carlsbad State Beach
  • Carmel River State Beach
  • Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Carpinteria State Beach
  • Caspar Headlands State Reserve
  • Caspar Headlands State Beach
  • Castaic Lake State Recreation Area
  • Castle Crags State Park
  • Castle Rock State Park
  • Castro Adobe
  • Caswell Memorial State Park
  • Cayucos State Beach
  • China Camp State Park
  • Chino Hills State Park
  • Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
  • Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Clear Lake State Park
  • Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park
  • Columbia State Historic Park
  • Colusa - Sacramento River State Recreation Area
  • Cornfield State Park
  • Corona del Mar State Beach
  • Cowell Ranch / John Marsh State Historic Park
  • Crystal Cove State Park
  • Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
  • D. L. Bliss State Park
  • Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
  • Delta Meadows
  • Dockweiler State Beach
  • Doheny State Beach
  • Donner Memorial State Park
  • East Shore State Park
  • El Capitán State Beach
  • El Escorpion State Park
  • El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
  • Emerald Bay State Park
  • Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve
  • Emma Wood State Beach
  • Empire Mine State Historic Park
  • Estero Bluffs State Park
  • Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
  • Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
  • The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park
  • Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
  • Fort Ord Dunes State Park
  • Fort Ross State Historic Park
  • Fort Tejon State Historic Park
  • Franks Tract State Recreation Area
  • Fremont Peak State Park
  • Garrapata State Park
  • Gaviota State Park
  • George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area
  • Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
  • Gray Whale Cove State Beach
  • Great Valley Grasslands State Park
  • Greenwood State Beach
  • Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
  • Grover Hot Springs State Park
  • Half Moon Bay State Beach
  • Harmony Headlands State Park
  • Harry A. Merlo State Recreation Area
  • Hatton Canyon
  • Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
  • Heber Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Hendy Woods State Park
  • Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
  • Henry W. Coe State Park
  • Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Humboldt Lagoons State Park
  • Humboldt Redwoods State Park
  • Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Huntington State Beach
  • Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
  • Indio Hills Palms
  • Jack London State Historic Park
  • Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
  • John B. Dewitt State Reserve
  • John Little State Reserve
  • Jug Handle State Reserve
  • Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
  • Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area
  • Kings Beach State Recreation Area
  • Kruse Rhododendron State Reserve
  • La Purisima Mission State Historic Park
  • Lake Del Valle State Recreation Area
  • Lake Oroville State Recreation Area
  • Lake Perris State Recreation Area
  • Lake Valley State Recreation Area
  • Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park
  • Leo Carrillo State Park
  • Leucadia State Beach
  • Lighthouse Field State Beach
  • Limekiln State Park
  • Little River State Beach
  • Los Angeles State Historic Park a.k.a. Cornfield State Park
  • Los Encinos State Historic Park
  • Los Osos Oaks State Reserve
  • MacKerricher State Park
  • Mailliard Redwoods State Reserve
  • Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
  • Malibu Creek State Park
  • Malibu Lagoon State Beach
  • Manchester State Park
  • Mandalay State Beach
  • Manresa State Beach
  • Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park
  • Marina State Beach
  • Marital Cottle Project
  • Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
  • McArthur - Burney Falls Memorial State Park
  • McConnell State Recreation Area
  • McGrath State Beach
  • Mendocino Headlands State Park
  • Mendocino Woodlands State Park
  • Millerton Lake State Recreation Area
  • Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
  • Montaña de Oro State Park
  • Montara State Beach
  • Monterey State Historic Park
  • Monterey State Beach
  • Montgomery Woods State Reserve
  • Moonlight State Beach
  • Morro Bay State Park
  • Morro State Beach beach
  • Moss Landing State Beach
  • Mount Diablo State Park
  • Mount San Jacinto State Park
  • Mount Tamalpais State Park
  • Natural Bridges State Beach
  • Navarro River Redwoods State Park
  • New Brighton State Beach
  • Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Old Sacramento State Historic Park
  • Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
  • Olompali State Historic Park
  • Pacheco State Park
  • Pacifica State Beach
  • Palomar Mountain State Park
  • Patrick 's Point State Park
  • Pelican State Beach
  • Pescadero State Beach
  • Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park
  • Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
  • Picacho State Recreation Area
  • Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park
  • Pío Pico State Historic Park
  • Pismo State Beach
  • Placerita Canyon State Park
  • Plumas -Eureka State Park
  • Point Cabrillo Light Station
  • Point Dume State Beach
  • Point Lobos State Reserve
  • Point Lobos Ranch
  • Point Montara Light Station
  • Point Mugu State Park
  • Point Sal State Beach
  • Point Sur State Historic Park
  • Pomponio State Beach
  • Portola Redwoods State Park
  • Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
  • Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
  • Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
  • Red Rock Canyon State Park
  • Refugio State Beach
  • Reynolds Wayside Campground
  • Richardson Grove State Park
  • Rio de Los Angeles State Park
  • Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach
  • Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
  • Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach
  • Russian Gulch State Park
  • Saddleback Butte State Park
  • Salinas River State Beach
  • Salt Point State Park
  • Salton Sea State Recreation Area
  • Samuel P. Taylor State Park
  • San Bruno Mountain State Park
  • San Buenaventura State Beach
  • San Clemente State Beach
  • San Elijo State Beach
  • San Gregorio State Beach
  • San Juan Bautista State Historic Park
  • San Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area
  • San Onofre State Beach
  • San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park
  • San Simeon State Park
  • San Timoteo Canyon
  • Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
  • Santa Monica State Beach
  • Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
  • Schooner Gulch State Beach
  • Seacliff State Beach
  • Shasta State Historic Park
  • Silver State Beach beach
  • Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area
  • Sinkyone Wilderness State Park
  • Smithe Redwoods State Reserve
  • Sonoma State Historic Park
  • Sonoma Coast State Beach
  • South Carlsbad State Beach
  • South Yuba River State Park
  • Standish - Hickey State Recreation Area
  • State Indian Museum State Historic Park
  • Stone Lake
  • Sugar Pine Point State Park
  • Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
  • Sunset State Beach
  • Sutter Buttes State Park
  • Sutter 's Fort State Historic Park
  • Tahoe State Recreation Area
  • Thornton State Beach
  • Tijuana Estuary
  • Tolowa Dunes State Park
  • Tomales Bay State Park
  • Tomo - Kahni State Historic Park
  • Topanga State Park
  • Torrey Pines State Beach
  • Torrey Pines State Reserve
  • Trinidad State Beach
  • Tule Elk State Reserve
  • Turlock Lake State Recreation Area
  • Twin Lakes State Beach
  • Van Damme State Park
  • Verdugo Mountains
  • Ward Creek
  • Washoe Meadows State Park
  • Wassama Round House State Historic Park
  • Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park
  • Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park
  • Westport - Union Landing State Beach
  • Wilder Ranch State Park
  • Wildwood Canyon
  • Will Rogers State Beach
  • Will Rogers State Historic Park
  • William Randolph Hearst Memorial State Beach
  • Woodland Opera House State Historic Park
  • Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area
  • Zmudowski State Beach

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