Loads of California Parks Will Likely Get Closed

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http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-california-state-park-closures-20110513,0,1562549.story

Or even better. If you can, go visit some of them before they shut down. Samuel P. Taylor is a favorite of mine.



1. Anderson Marsh State Historic Park
2. Annadel State Park
3. Antelope Valley Indian Museum
4. Austin Creek State Recreation Area
5. Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park
6. Benbow Lake State Recreation Area
7. Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
8. Benicia State Recreation Area
9. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park
10. Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
11. Brannan Island State Recreation Area
12. California Mining & Mineral Museum
13. Candlestick Point State Recreation Area
14. Castle Crags State Park
15. Castle Rock State Park
16. China Camp State Park
17. Colusa-Sacramento River State Recreation Area
18. Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
19. Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
20. Fort Tejon State Historic Park
21. Garrapata State Park
22. George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area
23. Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
24. Gray Whale Cove State Beach
25. Greenwood State Beach
26. Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
27. Hendy Woods State Park
28. Henry W. Coe State Park
29. Jack London State Historic Park
30. Jug Handle State Natural Reserve
31. Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park
32. Limekiln State Park
33. Los Encinos State Historic Park
34. Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
35. Manchester State Park
36. McConnell State Recreation Area
37. McGrath State Beach
38. Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
39. Morro Strand State Beach
40. Moss Landing State Beach
41. Olompali State Historic Park
42. Palomar Mountain State Park
43. Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park
44. Picacho State Recreation Area
45. Pio Pico State Historic Park
46. Plumas-Eureka State Park
47. Point Cabrillo Light Station
48. Portola Redwoods State Park
49. Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
50. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
51. Russian Gulch State Park
52. Saddleback Butte State Park
53. Salton Sea State Recreation Area
54. Samuel P. Taylor State Park
55. San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park
56. Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
57. Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
58. Shasta State Historic Park
59. South Yuba River State Park
60. Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area
61. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
62. Tomales Bay State Park
63. Tule Elk State Natural Reserve
64. Turlock Lake State Recreation Area
65. Twin Lakes State Beach
66. Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park
67. Westport-Union Landing State Beach
68. William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park
69. Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area
70. Zmudowski State Beach
 
It's old news, Darin. The general public will be out of luck, but Terri and I just park on the county roads and hike into the parks in spite. Nobody around. A perfect visit and hike. It's just like it was before it was a park.
 
Good way to see the silver lining Jerry.
The gov't closed down our provincial parks system drastically about 10 years ago. Shut many parks altogether, reduced rangers to about 15% of their former staff #'s, closed 'wilderness' (no service) sites completely... no rebound yet but there was a mumble about increasing funding to the parks by the current regime. Sad.
 
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The thing I don't get is that some of those parks make pretty good money in fees. I would've bet that Taylor Park payed for itself.
 
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If the State of California had one of those it probably belonged to the ex-governator.
 
Wish they'd hurry up and close them before my visit.
It'll make it ever so much easier to sneak up into some tall trees:D

It seems to me to be a dumb move. The reason tourists come to Cali is the great nature experience.(Except for those weirdos who come to see Hollywood!) Most tourist won't go into a closed park ( Only those weirdos who come to climb trees)
 
The way I see it, the government doesn't own the parks, the people do. They can stop services if they want but screw'em if they think that means no access... I'm going in anyway.
 
That old ploy of closing state parks to punish the residents in the state of Ohio has been done several times .In other words pony up more tax money or else .That does not have a thing to do with federal lands though .
 
im hating this more and more, they keep threatening to close them, these are OUR gems
and i dont agree one bit about closing them
how bout changing the paid staff over to english speaking hispanics.......who knows the maint work might get done quicker
they have a guest camp host who works in trade to stay at the site at no charge...so what do they pay for
cleaning services, and a ranger for security...is it that much?

we've screwed our kids out of the parks that we once knew.
 
I think they have to provide drinking water. Big whop. I think they also have to pay the local coppers to patrol the place. They may have to do that even if the place is closed.
 
no cops, thats what the ranger is for,
yup water and bathrooms is about all they provide, oh yeah trash cans......i say put 2 hosts in each camp and rotate the duties
then the only costs are the utilities and disposal
which should be off set by the fees taken in.
 
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no cops, thats what the ranger is for,
yup water and bathrooms is about all they provide, oh yeah trash cans......i say put 2 hosts in each camp and rotate the duties
then the only costs are the utilities and disposal
which should be off set by the fees taken in.
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If they arrest someone, where do they take them?
 
I was on the Nose on El Cap when Ronald Regan shut down Yosimite IT WAS awesome ....
We came down and there was nobody in all of the valley - Except the BAR was open .......
WEEEEE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Shit we did astro man a few days later - no lines hahahahahahaha
 
After katrina quite a few parks here in GA around the lake were closed. They are just now starting to reopen. When they were closed there was a lot of foot traffice and ya we did climb in some, not easy anymore with them being open. Putting in hosts would keep done some of the costs.


Do a check off, see how many you can get into and climb at before they reopen.
 
Obviously each area would present different things with their state or national parks .Parts of Cal .would have the giant redwoods which grow no where else on the planet .Few people including myself have ever seen them except in pictures .

Ohio has some dandys too .One is Hueston woods which is most likely the only piece of actual old growth sugar maples left in the country .Can you imagine 4 -5 feet in diameter and 95 feet to the bottom of the canopy and so populated nothing else can grow until something dies out .

It's realy a damned shame they have to use the parks as blackmail to increase tax money they blew to begin with .:what:
 
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