5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (249+ words) There is a week every fall when the North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees stops being a sequoia park and becomes a color show, and the people who live nearby guard that week carefully. The Highway 4 park near Arnold is…...

4+ day, 40+ min ago   (257+ words) A bat on the ground is not a bat that needs rescuing. Three Humboldt County kids just learned that lesson the hard way, with a round of rabies shots to show for it. Public health officials confirmed three children were…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (232+ words) Tahoe gets the postcards, but a lake fed by Yosemite snowmelt is quietly stealing some of its thunder. Travel outlet Islands is telling boaters to skip the crowds at Tahoe and point their trailers toward Lake McClure instead, calling the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (184+ words) Labor Day weekend is the last big send-off of summer, and the people who run California’s parks want everyone to make it home from this one. Ahead of the Monday holiday, California State Parks issued its annual reminder for visitors…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) Lynnette Bellin has been swimming in Lake Tahoe for more than two decades, and in all that time the scariest wildlife she encountered was a crawdad. That streak ended Sunday morning near Hidden Beach, when a river otter grabbed her…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (187+ words) One of Northern California’s oldest cattle ranches is about to become one of its newest playgrounds. The ranch sits in the Klamath Mountains about nine miles east of Callahan in Scott Valley, with eight miles of the East Fork Scott…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (217+ words) Active NorCal The cheapest item on this year's back to school list might also be the best one: free entry to 54 California state parks for more than a year Any fourth grader attending a California public school qualifies, and parents…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (249+ words) There are beach campgrounds, and then there is the one where Roosevelt elk wander past your tent while 300-foot redwoods loom above the sand. That spot just earned national bragging rights. World Atlas named Gold Bluffs Beach Campground at Prairie…...