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To visit Yosemite Valley in the fall is a chance to experience Yosemite National Park without crowds of people drawn to the area each summer. However, in fall, the air is cool, the days are short, and Santa Ana winds...
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Joshua Tree National Park is an explorer’s paradise. The area requires navigation skills, using large rock formations and the sun, if not a map and compass. Early settlers to the area aptly named sections of the park, including Hidden Valley,...
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Ryan Ranch is an abandoned adobe in Joshua Tree National Park. The Ryan brothers built a ranch and bunkhouse at this location in 1896, securing a homestead site adjacent to a natural spring, now dry. Spring water was used for the Lost...
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The tufa pinnaces at Trona were formed 10.000 to 100.000 years ago when Sierra Nevada snow melt flowed through a chain of glacial lakes, including Searles Lake. When groundwater pushed through fissures in the lakebed, calcium carbonate was formed, and,...
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Rock and ocean views, and the sound of the waves at night, make San Luis Obispo County's Morro Strand State Beach a spectacular place to camp. The three mile long beach is wide, and the sand soft, speckled with sea shells. ...
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