{"id":7565,"date":"2012-08-09T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2012-08-10T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:13:13","slug":"california-state-parks-top-25-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-state-parks-top-25-list\/","title":{"rendered":"California State Parks Top 25 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pkstate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right: McArthur-Burney Falls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/crystal-cove.html\">Crystal Cove<\/a> cabins, A\u00f1o Nuevo bull elephant seal<\/p>\n<p>Even though recent publicity has focused on the negative side of California State Parks operations, the threatened shut-down of 7o some parks, the rally to save them, and discovery of unreported funds of over $50 million that could have saved them, the drama that has played out doesn&#8217;t stop these parks from living, loving, and providing recreation to more than 57 million happy travelers in a single year! That&#8217;s a lot of vacations&#8211;and good times, no doubt!<\/p>\n<p>Over 1.3 million acres of land are owned or managed by California State Parks&#8211; 1.5% of the total area of California. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/california-state-parks.html\">279 units in the California State Parks<\/a> system that range from state beaches, mountain attractions, campgrounds, desert facilities, sand dunes with all terrain vehicle riding, to historic facilities such as the Governor&#8217;s Mansion and other museums throughout California. Since we fund our very own government, that means that we, as citizens, own 1.5% of California! Amazing. With this new perspective, don&#8217;t you owe it to yourself to go see your property? Admission and \/or parking isn&#8217;t always free so do your homework before you go (parks.ca.gov).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right: McArthur-Burney Falls, Crystal Cove cabins, A\u00f1o Nuevo bull elephant seal Even though recent publicity has focused on the negative side of California State Parks operations, the threatened shut-down of 7o some parks, the rally to save them, and discovery of unreported funds of over $50 million that could have saved them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}