There are a number of national parks in California . These include Lassen, Redwood,Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Yosemite and the Channel Islands. National monuments include Calabrillo in San Diego: Death Valley: Devils Postpile 7600 feet up in the eastern Sierra Nevada: Lava Beds , in northeastern California; Muir Woods, north of San Fransisco; Joshua Tree. In the desert near Palm Springs and Pinnacles in western Central California.
There are three national recreation areas: Golden Gate with 73,000 acres both north and south of the Gold Gate Bridge in San Fransisco; Santa Monica Mountains with 150,000 acres from Griffith Park in Los Angeles to the Ventura Country Line; and Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity with 240,000 acres including four major lakes, Point Reyes National Seashore is on a peninsula near San Fransisco.
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