While California's man-made tourist attractions tend to top the bill, the state is also well known for its natural beauty and wonder. These amazing geographic oddities are worth the trip, even without Disneyland or the Golden Gate Bridge.
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When a trip to the Galapagos Islands is out of the budget, adventurous travelers should consider this west coast national park that offers much of the same.
On an uninhabited island off the coast of Southern California where pygmy mammoths once roamed, I trekked along sandstone cliffs and up a steep footpath into one of the rarest native pine forests in the United States. Dwarfed and gnarled by the fierce winds, the endangered evergreens with freakishly large pine cones were so mesmerizing that I almost missed seeing a special fox.
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