You may already know Big Bear Lake as Southern California’s accessible all-season outdoor playground. What you might not know is that it’s also a sky island ecosystem. Soaring above the surrounding ...

Mono Lake is just east of the Sierra Nevada Range near the small town of Lee Vining, California, the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. Seeing it is a uniquely Western experience, and summer ...

California has campgrounds all over. You can pitch up under the soaring redwoods of the northern coastline, sleep amid the flower meadows of the high Sierra Nevada, and wake to the sound of the ...