Pinnacles National Park was the 59th National Park and California’s 9th to be designated. It was established as a national monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt and promoted to national park status in 2013 by President Barack Obama. Pinnacles is about 2 hours from San Francisco and almost 5 hours from Los Angeles in…
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Upon reviewing my Bay Area National Parks list, I first noticed the designation of a national seashore. My experiences with the NPS had been mostly limited to national parks and the occasional monument. There are currently a total of 10 national seashores: Seven national seashores on the Atlantic Coast: Cape Cod, MA, Fire Island, NY, Assateague Island,…
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