5 Best Hiking Trails Near Mount Shasta, From a Sacred Alpine Spring to a Historic Climber’s Hut
A quick geography note before anything else, since it’s worth knowing upfront: Mount Shasta itself, the town at its base,…

A quick geography note before anything else, since it’s worth knowing upfront: Mount Shasta itself, the town at its base,…

Mount Shasta dominates this part of Northern California so completely that it’s visible from up to 100 miles away, a…

Napa County contains three designated California State Park units: Bothe-Napa Valley State Park, Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park, and…

Most people come to Napa Valley for the wine, but the valley floor and surrounding hills have a genuinely solid…

The hiking trails in Humboldt County hold two of California’s most extreme claims at once: the tallest trees on Earth…

Redwood Hiking Trails in Mendocino County’s inland don’t behave like one uniform hiking destination. This collection swings from a hushed,…

The coastal hiking trails in Mendocino pack an unusual amount of geologic and ecological variety into a short stretch of…

Mendocino County packs 200 miles of rugged Pacific coastline, old-growth and second-growth redwood forest, and a genuinely strange pygmy forest…

Napa’s reputation as a wine destination is so total that most visitors never realize the valley is ringed by more…

Often called the “crown jewel” of the California State Park system, Point Lobos packs an outsized amount of scenery into…