Best Parks in California, United States
The top-ranked park in California is Yosemite National Park with a ParksRanked Score of 0 (49% data coverage). ParksRanked tracks 335 parks in California, United States, ordered by our own ParksRanked Score only.
335 places · 270 ranked · ranked honestly, never by who pays.
This page ranks every park and protected place we track in California, United States by our own ParksRanked Score — including 262 state/regional parks, 14 national forests, 12 national monuments, 9 national wildlife refuges, 9 nature reserves. Places without enough data yet are shown with an Insufficient ranking data marker rather than a guessed score.
The top-ranked is Yosemite National Park with a ParksRanked Score of 0 (49% data coverage).
- Yosemite National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
- Pinnacles National Park
- Muir Woods National Monument
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
- Angeles National Forest
- San Bernardino National Forest
- Mojave National Preserve
- Sequoia National Park
- Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
- Channel Islands National Park
- Redwood National Park
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- Inyo National Forest
- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
- Cleveland National Forest
- Sequoia National Forest
- Los Padres National Forest
- Shasta-Trinity National Forest
- Golden Gate Park
- Alcatraz Island
- Sierra National Forest
- Griffith Park
- Cabrillo National Monument
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Balboa Park
- Exposition Park
- Mission Dolores Park
- Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park
- Andrew Molera State Park
- Año Nuevo State Park
- Auburn State Recreation Area
- Border Field State Park
- Briones Regional Park
- Butano State Park
- Candlestick Point State Recreation Area
- China Camp State Park
- Chino Hills State Park
- Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
- Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
- Donner Memorial State Park
- Echo Park
- Ed R. Levin County Park
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park
- El Capitán State Beach
- Elysian Park
- Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
- Fort Funston
- Fort Ord Dunes State Park
- Fort Ross State Historic Park
- Garrapata State Park
- Gaviota State Park
- Grand Park
- Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
- Hendy Woods State Park
- Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
- Indio Hills Palms Park
- Jack London State Historic Park
- Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
- Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area
- Lands End
- Limekiln State Park
- MacKerricher State Park
- Malibu Creek State Park
- Marsh Creek State Park
- McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park
- McLaughlin Eastshore State Park
- Mission Bay Park
- Montaña de Oro State Park
- Monterey State Historic Park
- Morro Bay State Park
- Mount San Jacinto State Park
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Old Sacramento State Historic Park
- Pacheco State Park
- Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
- Pío Pico State Historic Park
- Pismo State Beach
- Placerita Canyon State Park
- Rancho San Antonio County Park
- Red Rock Canyon State Park
- Refugio State Beach
- Richardson Grove State Park
- Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
- Russian Gulch State Park
- Salt Point State Park
- Salton Sea State Recreation Area
- Samuel P. Taylor State Park
- San Onofre State Beach
- San Timoteo Canyon
- Topanga State Park
- Trione-Annadel State Park
- Uvas Canyon County Park
- Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park
- Wilder Ranch State Park
- D.L. Bliss State Park
- South Yuba River State Park
- Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
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