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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 07:53 PM Jan 2013

California Now Has More National Parks Than Any Other State


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I wish they all could be California parks
0 (0%)
Well, that's not fair: they oughta be forced to send Yosemite here to my state
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All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks
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Holy shizz! Another great place to wander stoned amongst the rattlesnakes!
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I Love You, California
4 (100%)
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California Now Has More National Parks Than Any Other State (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2013 OP
I'm glad the government is protecting these special places aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2013 #1
I've been to Yosemite many times, Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #2
But now you have to get to Pinnacles, too KamaAina Jan 2013 #3
Some day I will have to take an extended vacation in California again. Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #4
So I was in Banff at a fireside and the speaker asked how many of the audience were from California. dimbear Jan 2013 #5
no more rattlesnake medicine for you, my friend. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #6
*sigh* struggle4progress Jan 2013 #7

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
1. I'm glad the government is protecting these special places
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:10 PM
Jan 2013

I used to visit a remote part of the amazing Redwood Canyon in King's Canyon National Park. It's like a church, with giant trees filtering the sunlight. There's the smell of decayed wood and fresh dirt and the whisper of wind in the tree tops. I love playing my violin or guitar in that peaceful place. Redwood Canyon contains Lilburn Cave, an extremely vast and labyrinthine cave carved in banded marble by flowing water and now explored and mapped for well over twenty miles of underground splendor.



Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
2. I've been to Yosemite many times,
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:29 PM
Jan 2013

as well as Sequoia, Lassen Volcanic, King's Canyon, Devil's Postpile, and Redwood, and loved them all. Some day I would love to go to Joshua Tree, Point Reyes, Death Valley, and visit Yosemite again.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
3. But now you have to get to Pinnacles, too
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:37 PM
Jan 2013

It's near Soledad, inland from Big Sur. It jst became a national park.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
4. Some day I will have to take an extended vacation in California again.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:44 PM
Jan 2013

The last time I ventured out of an airport in the state was back in 1998, when I took the Grand Tour, logging over 1000 miles. I will definitely have to add Pinnacles to my list of must-see places

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
5. So I was in Banff at a fireside and the speaker asked how many of the audience were from California.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:55 PM
Jan 2013

We almost all were.

Californians love parks.

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