If the crowds are getting a bit much, then it’s high time you took a trip to the Channel Islands National Park, an ...

A panoramic photo of Potato Harbor, an oblong cove on the western side of Santa Cruz Island, California in National Park Service land, viewed from the cliffs above. Channel Islands National Park. Deep ...

A team arrived on Santa Rosa Island to assess the fire damage, including its impact on rare plants and animals. Here's why.

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, we’re featuring guest writers (whom we’ve dubbed “wilders” ) from ...

The Channel Islands are home to one of the least frequented national parks in the U.S., but one of its visitor centers (now closed because of the pandemic) is in Ventura, just 70 miles north of Los ...

Day visitors will soon be welcomed back, though recovery is expected to take years after thousands of acres burned.

“Out front, to the left!” the captain announces over the radio, as we cut through the inky-blue Santa Barbara Channel back to the California mainland. Slowing down, we all jump up as a humpback whale ...

One of the nation’s least-visited offshore refuges has been compared to the Galápagos—and the best way to meet its wild residents up close is with a double-bladed paddle. When I was a rookie beach ...