National Parks in California

What This State Directory Includes

This page uses complete NPS state membership. A trail, parkway, river, historic route, or other distributed unit may appear in more than one state. Not every listing is formally designated a National Park, so the designation is shown separately for each site instead of treating every NPS unit as the same park type.

Core park identity and state membership come from locally stored NPS-derived records. Individual park pages provide current bundled NPS visitor information and explain reference-coordinate limitations.

Sites with a National Park Designation

These NPD listings carry a National Park, National Park & Preserve, or National and State Parks designation in the current source record. Some NPS records group related named parks, so this is a directory-record view rather than a claim about the official count of separately designated parks.

Channel Islands National Park National Park California

Death Valley National Park National Park California, Nevada

Joshua Tree National Park National Park California

Lassen Volcanic National Park National Park California

Pinnacles National Park National Park California

Redwood National and State Parks National and State Parks California

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks National Park California

Yosemite National Park National Park California

NPS Site Types in California

All NPS Sites in California

Map of NPS Sites in California

The markers use NPS reference coordinates. A reference point may be an administrative or geographic point rather than an entrance, trailhead, visitor center, or nearest access point—especially for trails, rivers, parkways, and other distributed units.

Multi-State and Distributed NPS Sites

6 listings associated with California also belong to at least one other state or territory. Their state membership is shown below so a single-state label does not imply the whole unit is located only here.

Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California

California National Historic Trail National Historic Trail California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming

Death Valley National Park National Park California, Nevada

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Arizona, California

Old Spanish National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah

Pony Express National Historic Trail National Historic Trail California, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming

City Guides in California

These are NPD city-based park discovery pages. They compare NPS sites by straight-line distance from each city; they do not claim that a park is located inside the city or that the distance is road mileage.

Source and Freshness

Park identity, designation, complete state membership, images, and reference coordinates are derived from NPD's locally stored National Park Service data. NPD city relationships come from the dedicated city directory and are kept separate from NPS park addresses.

Latest park-source refresh represented on this state page: Sep 26, 2026.