Discover nature
Climate Action Counts is a statewide effort mobilizing Californians to take everyday climate actions at home and in their neighborhoods. Take the pledge and help fight climate change by discovering nature and more!
Enjoy nature at your local parks and trails.
California’s parks and public lands provide a fun, affordable and healthy way to connect with family, friends, community and the outdoors. Spending just two hours outdoors can improve your health and well-being. By connecting with nature, we gain a sense of stewardship and a desire to seek everyday actions to protect the environment.
Resources:
🔗 Find a California State Park – California State Parks
🔗 Outdoors for All – California State Parks
🔗 30×30 California – California Nature
🔗 A Community for Naturalists – iNaturalist
Did You Know?
State Parks
The number of state parks in California
National Parks
The number of national parks in California
Minutes Walking
The number of minutes of walking in a natural area that can reduce stress and symptoms of depression
Campsites
The number of campsites, prehistoric and historic archeological sites, ghost towns, historic homes and monuments in California waiting to be explored
Partner Spotlights
Each of us has the power to combat climate change in our own lives. Actions like conserving energy, composting food waste and capturing data about local nature make a real difference in our own communities and far beyond. That’s why our Natural Resources Agency is proud to partner with the Climate Action Counts campaign to help Californians take these climate actions. Working together— person-by-person and community-by-community, we are building a positive future for generations to come.”
— Wade Crowfoot, Secretary for Natural Resources
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We are on a mission to help all Californians and nature thrive together. Home to over 25,000 employees, our Agency protects, manages and restores the state’s environment and its vast natural, cultural and historical resources. We advance this work with science as our foundation and inclusion and collaboration as our guiding principles.
California’s state parks are living classrooms and vital sanctuaries for the plants and animals that make our state one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The incredible diversity of California’s State Park System – from vast deserts, mountains, historic sites, lakes, rivers, beaches and everything in between – is unmatched. I invite all Californians to discover the nature in their state parks and be part of the effort to protect our natural resources for generations to come.”
— Armando Quintero, Director, California State Parks
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State Park System lands protect and preserve an unparalleled collection of culturally and environmentally sensitive structures and habitats, threatened plant and animal species, ancient Native American sites, historic structures and artifacts; the best of California’s natural and cultural history. With 280 state park units, over 340 miles of coastline, 970 miles of lake and river frontage, 15,000 campsites, 5,200 miles of trails, 3,195 historic buildings and more than 11,000 known prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, the department contains the largest and most diverse recreational, natural and cultural heritage holdings of any state agency in the nation.
