California State Parks: Bold Vision for Biggest Expansion of State Parks in Decades

Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced State Parks Forward, setting California on a path to rapidly expand the nation’s largest and most diverse State Park System through a streamlined acquisition and planning process. Building on unprecedented progress of key administration priorities like Outdoors for All and 30x30, State Parks Forward establishes three new state parks near underserved communities in the Central Valley and lays the groundwork to turn that vision into reality while at the same time expanding existing parks by thousands of acres. These strategic acquisitions will increase the number of state parks to 283 – far more than any other state. Read ON.