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The 1100-mile California Coastal Trail is explored through interviews and highlights.
Can restoration efforts fix the mistakes of the past?
Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County is one of the most beautiful beaches in California.
Gaviota State Park is a strange beach -- on account of the giant, 811-foot long railroad trestle.
Designed to connect San Francisco and Santa Cruz, the incomplete Ocean Shore Railroad offered one of the most scenic rides in California. But it did not last long.
Overseeing Sequoia, Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Park in the early 1900s, African American men in "Buffalo Soldier" regiments were some of the state’s first National Park Rangers.
"From birth to death, a reverence and connection with the natural world -- particularly the sea -- tied the many distinct tribes of the Chumash together."
It is hard to believe that a little over a century ago this Mayberry of vacation homes and sunshine was just a mosquito infested mudflat, which one Newport Mayor unceremoniously referred to as a "dump."
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk emerged as the dream of a magnetic, brash young showman who wanted to turn the seaside town into the next great tourist destination.
Unimpressed by his first sight of the Bay in 1769, Spanish expedition leader Gaspar de Portolá had unknowingly stumbled upon one of the greatest natural harbors in the world.
Executive ProducersJuan DevisThomas RiglerCo-Executive ProducerSteven ReichWriterSteve Reich DirectorThomas RiglerEditorsDave EmmendorferBilly G.…
Before it was a tourist destination, Monterey's Cannery Row was home to a tight knit, multi-cultural community of fish factory workers and the Pacific Biological Lab, a hub of local artists and writers.
