Sunday, May 24, 2015

California National Parks

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo reminds Portuguese explorer who landed in San Diego Bay, September 28, 1542, claiming the coast of Spain.

The road to California carried over 250,000 gold miners and farmers to the gold fields and fertile farmland of California in the 1840s and 1850s - the largest mass migration in American history. Memories of the victims, struggles and triumphs of the travelers and the early American settlers - more than 1,000 miles of trails and bumpy tracks can still be seen in the vast underdeveloped western.

It consists of five islands off the southern coast of California, includes parking nesting seabirds, colonies of sea lions and a variety of unique plants in the world.

This great desert, surrounded by high mountains, understand the point of least western hemisphere.

Features basalt columns 40-60 feet high like a giant organ that is formed by the cooling and cracking of hot lava around 900,000 years ago.

Eugene O'Neill, Nobel-winning playwright and architect of modern American theater award, lived in the hills Tao House in Danville 1937-1944.

Built by the US Army Corps of Engineers 1853-1861 to prevent the entry of an enemy fleet in the San Francisco Bay.

Accommodation near 20 million visitors a year is one big city Park ocean beaches, redwood forests, lakes, swamps, military property, and the island of Alcatraz.

Preserved mansion with 17 rooms in the naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir lived from 1890 until his death in 1914th

Desert Park and Biosphere Reserve offers a variety of plants and animals and a booth Joshua trees represent.

The third oldest national park has a robust and powerful River Canyon, waterfalls and interior desolation. It includes grants Grove and Cedar Grove.

Established as a national park because of active volcanism. Lassen Peak broke intermittently from 1914 to 1921.

A natural fortress that used by the Indians in the Modoc Indian War, 1872-1873 - The volcanic activity has created a rugged landscape here.

The best of ten camps where they were interned during the Second World War, US citizens of Japanese and Japanese foreigners retained.

Protect the sensitive environment of the desert tortoise, and has a variety of landscapes, geological phenomenon, historical sites and recreational areas.

It contains a virgin coast redwoods environmental support, the name of John Muir, author and.

Spirelike has rock formations 500-1200 meters high, with caves and a variety of volcanic features. Closed until further notice due to storm damage.

Peninsula near San Francisco is known for its long beaches of cliffs, lagoons and estuaries, wooded ridge, and colonies of birds and sea lions known backed off the coast.

The Pony Express NHT was used by young people in fast horses to transport mail from Missouri to California Nation in unprecedented time of just ten days. The relay system has the direct and practical nation east-west communication before the telegraph, and played an important role in California alignment with the Union in the years just before the Civil War.

Characteristic old growth coastal redwood forests and 40 miles of beautiful Pacific coast.

The Richmond Park, California, was created to commemorate the mobilization of employees before the House during the Second World War, while specifically recognizing the contributions of women and minorities in these efforts.

It contains historical fleet in Hyde Street Pier, the Maritime Museum and the Maritime Museum Library.

Located near Los Angeles, it has over 580 miles of trails and a scenic drive 55 miles through the Santa Monica Mountains

The second oldest national park is home to forests of redwoods, Mineral King Valley and Mount Whitney.

With mountainous interior and a large tank, Whiskey provides unit activities such as hiking and canoeing.

Founded in 1890, the Park alpine Sierra Nevada wilderness, groves of Giant Sequoia, and Yosemite Valley Glacier has carved.

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