Along Highway 1, sandwiched between the elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park and the colorful kite surfers at Waddell Beach, is a 1.4-mile stretch of coastline called t...
The 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake is tomorrow. The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major quake, with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale. Sixty three de...
Thanks to Archer Koch of MultiRotorCam.com, we are updating this story with his great aerial video of the wave motor pumping it out in February, 2015. Along West Cliff Dr...
Cover photo by imtnbike. Most people in California don’t think much about Mount Lassen. You can only kind of see it as you drive up Interstate 5, Mount Shasta is bigger a...
Natural Bridges State Beach derives its name from three beautiful natural bridges that were present in the early 1900s. Today, only the middle one remains and technically...
The sediments at the top of this cliff face along West Cliff Drive are generally referred to as recent from a geological perspective. They are from the Quaternary Period,...
If you look in the northern most cove at Bonny Doon Beach, (yes, it’s the clothing-optional section), you will see a tall skinny dike of sandstone that cuts across...
A striking 50 mile long ridge, Stanislaus Table Mountain was once a river valley – the ancestral Stanislaus River to be exact. Here is the story: Between 6-26 milli...
Seabright Beach used to be called Castle Beach because of the castle shaped bath house that was there between 1900 and 1967. The bath house cum castle was originally buil...
As a hiker in California, I always heard that Hetch Hetchy Valley was just as spectacular as Yosemite Valley before it was dammed in 1923 to provide water for San Francis...
