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AMSAT Online Satellite Pass Predictions. N2YO provides real time tracking and pass predictions with orbital paths and footprints overlaid on Google Maps. It features an alerting system that automatically notifies users via SMS and/or email before International Space Station crosses the local sky.
The California State Parks system ( Spanish: Parques Estatales de California) [5] is the public park system of California. The system is administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department of the California Natural Resources Agency. The California State Parks system is the largest state park system in the United States.
The America the Beautiful Pass (also known as the Interagency Pass) series comprises annual or lifetime passes that grant the holder entrance to more than 2,000 federally protected areas including national parks, national monuments, and other protected areas managed by six federal agencies: the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land ...
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Tioga Pass. / 37.91111°N 119.25806°W / 37.91111; -119.25806. Tioga Pass is a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. State Route 120 runs through it, and serves as the eastern entry point for Yosemite National Park, at the Tioga Pass Entrance Station. It is the highest elevation highway pass in California and ...
Location in California. Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
Provides access to the Castle Crags Wilderness, with its 6,000-foot-tall (1,800 m) rock crags. [49] Castle Rock State Park. State park. Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo. 5,242. 2,121. 1968. Encompasses a wild forest with rock climbing opportunities along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The United Nations designated the Redwood National and State Parks a World Heritage Site in 1980. The evaluation committee noted cooperative management and ongoing research in the parks by Humboldt State University and other partners. [69] The parks are within the California Coast Ranges and their resources are considered irreplaceable. [70]