ALTA SIERRA BIBLICAL GARDENS: THE SIERRA GARDEN OF EDEN
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Finding gold, God, and the Sierra Garden of Eden in California’s Gold Country.
Read MoreFORESTIERE UNDERGROUND GARDENS: FRESNO’S COOL UNDERGROUND RETREAT
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In the early 1900s, a Sicilian immigrant, citrus grower, and visionary turned a vast underground network of rooms, tunnels, and courtyards into a subterranean escape from the sweltering Central Valley summer heat.
Read MoreTHE VICTORIAN HILLSIDE CEMETERIES WHERE VIRGINIA CITY’S DEAD REST IN PEACE
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The Silver Terrace Cemeteries memorialize the diverse laborers who worked the Comstock and made Virginia City a boom town.
Read MoreWIND WOLVES PRESERVE: HIKING THE WEST COAST’S LARGEST NONPROFIT NATURE PRESERVE
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Rolling grasslands, wildflowers, wetlands, oak savannas, and pinyon forests converge to create one of the most uniquely diversified nature preserves in California.
Read MoreMITCHELL CAVERNS: PROVIDENCE MOUNTAINS SRA
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Hiking the trails and exploring the limestone caverns in one of California’s most rugged and remote state parks.
Read MoreA VIKING RISES IN THE DESERT: A PHOTO ESSAY
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A Viking is once again rising at this former talc mine and ghost camp in Death Valley California.
Read MoreTALC CITY HILLS: A DVNP ADJACENT OFF ROAD ADVENTURE
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Take an off road adventure through the white chalky hills that once produced nearly all the steatite grade talc in the United States.
Read MoreCERRO GORDO GHOST TOWN: THE MINE THAT BUILT LA
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The “Fat Hill” in the Inyo Mountains that helped build Los Angeles.
Read MoreGOLD TO GHOST: RANDSBURG, CA
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You’ll find lots of history and charm in this Mojave Desert living ghost town.
Read MoreMISSION SANTA YSABEL CEMETERY
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Located on a hillside in the small town of Santa Ysabel, this 19th century church, museum and cemetery along Highway 79 reveals a more native side to California Mission history.
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