Recent California State Parks Articles

In the sun-scorched corridors of the western Mojave Desert, where ancient lake beds give way to layered escarpments of red, white, and pink volcanic rock, a legal battle over who gets to use California's most dramatic landscapes has just reached a pivotal turning point. On September 29, 2026, the C

The Dunes Are Open — But the War Over Oceano Is Far From Over For anyone who has ever aired down their tires and pointed a truck toward the surf at Oceano Dunes, the scene is hard to forget: a wide, hard-packed beach stretching for miles along California's Central Coast, dunes rising to the east l