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Explore our favorite weekend escapes in and around Southern California.

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California poppies | Photo: Courtesy Bethany Gediman
Perhaps the most intense display in full bloom right now is just outside Yosemite National Park in the Merced River Canyon.
A carpet of California poppies near the Figueroa Mountain station | Photo: Courtesy Los Padres National Forest
If you're on the wildflower hunt, Figueroa Mountain is having a great bloom despite lack of rain this winter.
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Jack London State Historic Park has been saved from closure, officials announced Tuesday.
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Though the vast majority of unpleasant interactions with rattlesnakes are avoidable, sometimes accidents do happen, even if a rattlesnake would much rather leave you alone.
The feeling of flying through a forest's canopy, high above the ground, is just so incredible. For those who are looking to zip through the numerous ecosystems in Southern California, we've created this guide for you.
Desert Lily near the sanctuary in 2009 | Creative Commons photo by Wayfinder_73
2012 has been a lousy bloom year through most of the California Desert. But if you get out to the Desert Lily Sanctuary in the next week or two, you'll find a little patch of color to match some of the best bloom years ever.
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The humble Music Box Steps in Los Angeles are one of the city's most recognizable.
It looks like another early season for humpback whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. Since Thursday, there have been at least 10 humpbacks seen each day.
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There was a new moon this week and that means the weekend is full of star parties.
Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park at sunset | Photo: Zach Behrens/KCET
What "Star Wars" creator George Lucas saw as a stand-in for an alien planet is what today's scientists see as an analog location for studying Mars.
Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker Henry Jun Wah Lee has done it again. This week he published another time-lapse video of beautiful spots in the Southwest, including a handful of California spots.
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That $5 permit to access certain parts of national forests in Southern California could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a recent ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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