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Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park is a major regional park in the San Joaquin Hills of Orange County, California in the United States.Comprising 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) of rugged coastal canyons, open grassland, and riparian woodland, the park borders the suburban cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel and lies within a portion of the ancestral ...
The High Sierra Camps are nine rustic lodging facilities located in two national parks and a national monument in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. Open most years from June or July to September, they are staffed camps with tent cabins and food service facilities. The backcountry camps receive their supplies by pack mules.
Tassajara Hot Springs is a collection of natural hot springs within the Ventana Wilderness area of the Santa Lucia Range and Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County, California. The hot springs were used by the indigenous Native Americans for generations before they were discovered by Europeans in about 1843.
"The Best Health Resort in California" (The Register, October 5, 1920) A 1888 California book reported the temperature of the hot springs was 135 °F (57 °C). [8] Per Waring in 1915, the water issues "from granitic rocks and near the base of the steeper slopes of a portion of the coastal ranges. Two main springs, four minor ones, and several ...
There are 149 wilderness areas in California totaling just over 15,000,000 acres (61,000 km 2). [9] The largest is Death Valley Wilderness at 3,055,413 acres (12,364.82 km 2 ), the largest federally designated wilderness in the continental United States, and the smallest is the Rocks and Islands Wilderness at 19 acres (77,000 m 2 ).
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park is a 2,500 acre public regional park within the city of Lake Forest in southern Orange County, California. Whiting Ranch features riparian , oak woodland , grassland , chaparral , and coastal sage scrub environments throughout various canyons and hillscapes. [ 1 ]
Lake Pillsbury is the largest recreational lake in the forest at 2,280 acres (9.2 km 2) and offers boat ramps, camping and resorts. Letts Lake, southeast of Lake Pillsbury is 35 acres (140,000 m 2) in size and has hiking trails, campgrounds and is close to trailheads into Snow Mountain Wilderness.
The Otay Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. wilderness area in San Diego County, California, 12 miles east of the community of Otay Mesa and just north of the Mexico–United States border. Some parts of the wilderness area rise quickly from sea level, reaching a peak of just over 3,500 feet (1,100 m) at the summit of Otay Mountain. [3]