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To wrap up our socially distanced tour of California’s North Coast, we’re visiting entire towns originally built of old-growth redwood, trees otherwise…
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When visiting the ocean in winter, one particular fellow traveler pops to mind—the Western or Pacific gray whale, also known as the California gray whale.…
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MacKerricher State Park is Fort Bragg’s park, deeply woven into the community’s story, past and present. Most people enter this gorgeous stretch of ocean,…
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State parks along California’s North Coast offer great opportunities to explore—up close and personal—the long-ago processes that created the land beneath…
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The Great California Road Trip has rolled west—to explore more of the North Coast, “the brink of the world,” as an ancient Ohlone dancing song has it.…
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It’s a cliché to say it’s magical to meander through coast redwoods. That’s probably because the experience is magical, so people keep saying it. The…
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The Great California Road Trip heads west this week, to the edge of the continent.California’s isolated, sometimes isolationist human history has been…
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Consider last week’s thumbnail sketch of Death Valley a preview of California’s deserts. As it happens, fall, winter, and spring are ideal times to…
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We visit Death Valley this week, the lowest point in North America. Death Valley’s depths are all the more impressive when you consider that the highest…
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The Eastern Sierra Tour rolls on this week to Manzanar, a World War II internment camp. "Relocation center” was the preferred official term.Manzanar faces…