Students hold a park emblem at Dos Rios, California’s newest state park, at the park's opening ceremony in Modesto on June 12, 2024. Dos Rios is California’s 281st state park and is the first park to ...

If you're looking to enjoy soaring redwoods without massive crowds, this hidden state park offers plenty of seclusion and a pristine campground.

Earlier this week KALW's Marissa Ortega Welch hosted a special live edition of her podcast, How Wild, about the state of ...

I got to California and I decided I’m going to try to become a state park ranger. It took me about six months. I loved it. It wasn’t a career, it was a way of life.

Latest on park ranger fatally shooting suspect near Palisades Tahoe OLYMPIC VALLEY - A man armed with a knife was shot dead by a California State Parks ranger near Palisades Tahoe, officials said ...

Asked about his experience with the word touron, former park ranger Griff Grifffith said it wasn’t used much around his main stomping grounds — Northern California’s redwood parks — where ...

Park Ranger Stumbles Upon Treasure Trove of Several-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Northern California Paleontologists found hundreds of Miocene fossils, including an 8-million-year-old mastodon, at ...

The California State Library Parks Pass, which gets you visit many state-operated parks for free, can be checked out like a ...

A San Clemente couple’s visit to Doheny State Beach to feed homeless people ended with the husband in handcuffs and his wife calling 911 on the ranger who arrested him.