State Parks Archives - STRAYNGER RANGER

HIKING GOLD COUNTRY’S UNIQUE MALAKOFF DIGGINS STATE HISTORIC PARK

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: April 3, 2019
Category: Mines/Ghost Towns

Finding hiking gold in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada in what was once the largest and richest hydraulic gold mine in the world.

MITCHELL CAVERNS: PROVIDENCE MOUNTAINS SRA

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: June 17, 2018
Category: Nature/Hikes

Hiking the trails and exploring the limestone caverns in one of California’s most rugged and remote state parks.

WOLF HOUSE RUINS

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: July 28, 2015
Category: Abandoned

The haunting ruins of Jack London’s dream house in Sonoma, CA.

COLONEL ALLENSWORTH STATE HISTORIC PARK

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: June 13, 2015
Category: Obscure

Established in 1908 by a former slave as an idealistic community dedicated to Booker T. Washington’s principles of self-help and self-determination, this Central Valley utopia was the first all-African-American township in California founded and financed by black citizens.

YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: March 2, 2015
Category: Abandoned

Walking through the strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

CHUMASH PAINTED CAVE STATE HISTORIC PARK

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: December 20, 2014
Category: Sacred/Spiritual

The walls of this small cave carved from towering sandstone boulders contain some of the finest remaining rock art created by Chumash Native Americans.

LA PURISIMA MISSION

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: December 20, 2014
Category: Sacred/Spiritual

Mision La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima is one of the famous network of Spanish Franciscan missions stretching the length of California.

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