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Fun Links

(…being linked below does not necessarily mean a recommendation by Outdoor World, they are only listed for your information. All offsite links below will open in a new browser.)

  • California State Parks from the State of California website
  • Online reservations for the California Department of Parks and Recreation that manages more than 270 park units, which contain the finest and most diverse collection of natural, cultural, and recreational resources to be found within California.
  • California National Forests from the USDA Forest Service website
  • California Department of Fish & Game from the State of California website
    Outdoor California, official magazine of the California Department of Fish and Game
  • Bureau of Land Management for California recreational opportinities on State Lands
  • National Wildlife Refuges in California
  • California State Parks Foundation is dedicated to preserving every leaf, blade of grass, and grain of sand from the shores of Año Nuevo to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
  • California Travel & Tourism Travel information from the State of California website
  • California State Tourism & Recreation Outdoor information from the State of California website
  • CalTrans, California road conditions
  • Yosemite.org - Yosemite Association
  • YosemitePark.Net (Half-Dome Cam)
  • Yosemite.com Yosemite Area Traveler Information
  • Map of National Parks in California from ParkNet
  • Online reservations for National Parks Reservation Service; switching to Recreation.gov February, 2007
  • USDA Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and manages public lands in national forests and grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres.
  • National Park Foundation strengthening the enduring connection between the American people and their national parks
  • AreaParks.com offers information on every National Park
  • ParkInfo.org, a collaborative, public interest effort to broaden access by people to all levels of parks and open space
  • Recreation.gov - Recreational opportinities on Federal Lands
  • Mapping.USGS.gov, national mapping information from the U.S. Geological Survey web site
  • NationalAtlas.gov, National Atlas of the United States
  • FirstGov.com, the first-ever government website to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources
  • National Recreation Reservation Service for Federal Recreational Areas/Facilities
  • ReserveAmerica.com - Central California and other campsite reservations in North America (owned and operated by Ticketmaster)
  • Coleman’s OuterNet, interactive source for outdoor activities everywhere
  • Camp USA, campground search for California (and other states)
  • American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for nearly 100 years, have joined together to share knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs
  • Kampgrounds of America is a franchise chain of about 450 campgrounds throughout North America. Most campgrounds are located in wooded and other natural areas and offer full-hookup pull through RV sites, convenient tent sites, kamping kabins, kamping lodges and kamping kottages, hot showers and clean bathrooms, laundry facilities, campground stores, pet friendly camping environment, and friendly staff.
  • Discover the Outdoors is dedicated to providing valuable information designed to promote and encourage outdoor involvement such as hunting, fishing, wildlife watching and many others
  • Recreational weather forecast at weather.com
  • Total Escape is an all inclusive California web site offering outdoor activities, destination, small town listings, tons of photographs & articles.
  • Weekend Sherpa is a free weekly e-mail newsletter giving you insider’s recomendations on the best outdoor pursuits exclusive to Northern California. Check out their list of great local hikes
  • Outbound Activities at the Sacramento Bee.
  • MyOutdoorTV.com, outdoor television on the internet.
  • CampingTips.org Your source for good camping tips, camping tent reviews, camping supply reviews and a whole lot more. Be prepared & have fun!
  • Wilderness Volunteers organizes service trips in cooperation with public land agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, National Forest Service and the US Fish & Wildlife Service
  • VirtualParks.org, Visit some of the world’s great wilderness scenes with panoramic photography by eric goetze. Each panorama captures a full 360 degrees of scenery and is built from 10-18 individual images. Locations range from parks in California, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Canada to the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps.
  • The Swimming Holes of California features 105 natural plunges all over the Golden State and the hikes to them. The author describes only pristine favorites with no man-made structures within sight. Many of the maps are free, others require membership.
  • American Hiking Society, national organization dedicated to serving hikers and protecting the nation’s hiking trails
  • Hike For Discovery is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s new adventure fundraising program that prepares people, from beginners to seasoned hikers, to experience a natural wonder in a special way. As you train, you’ll raise funds to help The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) cure blood cancers. For more info go to TeamInTraining.org/HFD
  • Trails.com Trails Finder, features 20,000 hiking, biking, paddling & skiing trails across US & Canada.
  • GoingOutside.com, info on campgrounds, public lands, beaches, lakes, marinas, mountain ranges, city guides
  • goby.com is an inspiration engine all about exploring things to do with your free time, from this weekend’s adventure to your next week off
  • National Get Outdoors Day is an annual event to encourage healthy, active outdoor fun offering opportunities for American families to experience traditional and non-traditional types of outdoor activities. Prime goals of the day are reaching first-time visitors to public lands and reconnecting our youth to the great outdoors.
  • Wonderful Outdoor World is the nation’s premier effort to connect urban youth with a legacy they share with every other American a mix of parks and forests and refuges and other public lands and waters that cover nearly one in three acres of the nation’;s surface.
  • California Family Vacation travel ideas from away.com
  • American Discovery Trail stretches across more than 6,800 miles and 15 states, from Point Reyes National Seashore California to Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware. The only coast-to-coast, non-motorized recreational trail, allowing people to bike, hike or ride horses across the country.
  • Pacific Crest Trail Association, to protect, preserve and promote the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, spanning 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada through three western states
  • John Muir Trail, is 211 miles long and runs from Yosemite Valley to Mt Whitney
  • Tahoe Rim Trail Association, dedicated to building promoting and maintaining a rim trail system providing access to the beauty of the Lake Tahoe Region
  • California Coastal Trail Expedition is the result of creative vision and ongoing effort to build a network of publicly accessible trails for walkers, bikers, equestrians, wheelchair riders and other users along California’s coastline.
  • San Diego Sea to Sea Trail is 140 miles of natural beauty, running from the Salton Sea near the Anza-Borrego Desert, to the Pacific Ocean near Del Mar, California.
  • San Francisco Bay Trail, The Bay Trail is a planned recreational corridor that, when complete, will encircle San Francisco and San Pablo Bays with a continuous 400-mile network of bicycling and hiking trails. It will connect the shoreline of all nine Bay Area counties, link 47 cities, and cross the major toll bridges in the region.

Local

Summer Fun

  • Costanoa Campgrounds is north of Santa Cruz; where one can retreat from the chaos of everyday life and discover the pace of nature
  • CalOutdoors.org is a trade association dedicated to preserving rivers and providing high quality, safe and outrageously fun trips throughout California.
  • Mariah Wilderness Expeditions provides whitewater rafting trips in California and Costa Rica. Specialty trips for Families, Women, Wine Tasters, and Music Lovers. Professionals since 1982.
  • AmericanWhitewater.com American (River) Whitewater Expeditions
  • Rafters.com South Bay River Rafters - South Fork of the American River
  • CacheCanyon.com Cache Canyon Whitewater River Trips
  • Whitewater-Adv.com Whitewater Adventures on Upper Cache Creek
  • Rogue Klamath River Adventures offers guided whitewater rafting and fishing tours throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California.
  • Echo River Trips has 35 years experience of running whitewater river trips in California, Oregon and Idaho
  • OARS.com Outdoor Adventure River Specialists, Their California section offers trips on the American River, Klamath River, Merced River, Cherry Creek (Upper Tuolumne), Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Cal Salmon in Trinity Alps, and the Kern River
  • All-Outdoors Whitewater Rafting All Outdoors offer half-day, one, two and three day rafting adventures on twelve Premier California Rivers; from the Upper Klamath near the Oregon border to the Kaweah River near Fresno.
  • White Water Voyages offers white water rafting trips on 18 rivers from Bakersfield to the Oregon Border. They also offer Summer Camps, Guide schools, Kayak schools, and Corporate Teambuilding Workshops.
  • Turtle River Rafting Company guided whitewater river rafting trips in the mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. From May through September, they offer 1 to 5 day trips on seven different rivers: mild whitewater and float trips where families can take children as young as four; more adventurous Class 3 wilderness trips; and wild water… Class 4 & 5.
  • Trinity River Rafting located Hwy 299W., Big Flat, CA 96010 on the Trinity River. We offer Whitewater Rafting trips on the Trinity River, Burnt Ranch Gorge, Klamath, Upper Sacramento, Cal Salmon and South Fork Trinity, and have an Inflatable Kayak School. 1-800-30-RIVER
  • Yosemite Trails Pack Station, Inc. offers horseback riding into the south entrance of Yosemite

Winter Fun

Northern California
Southern California

Other Fun

  • R.O.M.P., Responsible Organized Mountain Pedalers, advocating for Mountain Biking in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
  • T.A.G. Paintball The oldest, since 1985, and still the BEST in Northern California, or your money back guaranteed! 10+ Fields of Tournament.
  • Sequoia Paintball offers 5 different playing fields in the majestic redwoods off Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with bunkers, obstacles, creeks and fantastic terrain that offer excellent cover and exciting paintball action!
  • Sequoia Airsoft is the Bay Area’s premier outdoor airsoft field. Sequoia boasts a huge, fully shaded outdoor field in the redwoods with bunkers and other obstacles. We use various props for multiple missions throughout the day.
  • Black Mountain Bowmen Archery Range is located in the South San Jose foothills on the east side of Santa Teresa Park. The range currently offers 28 targets in a classic California oak tree setting.
  • Adventure Sports Unlimited is an aquatics fun center, in Santa Cruz, that has been teaching people to play in the water, through the sports of skin & SCUBA diving, kayaking, and swimming for over 27 years.
  • Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to improve the health, independence and social integration of people with physical disabilities through sports, fitness and recreation programs.
  • Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering opportunities to learn outdoor skills in a safe, encouraging and supportive environment. Instruction is given in a one, two or three-day workshop with valuable hands-on experiences.
  • CalSalmon.org is dedicated to the protection and restoration of California’s salmon, steelhead, and trout populations and their habitat
  • Salmon Protection and Watershed Network SPAWN’s watershed naturalists lead public tours to observe the spawning salmon in their colorful mating rituals, mid-November through mid-January.
  • Take Me Fishing, for information on fishing, boating and caring for the water.
  • USA Fishing Report — The West coast and California’s premier fishing site including reports for Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Moss Landing, and Monterey
  • The High Sierra Fishing Report, conceived in 1997 as a source of fishing information on the Eastern Sierra’s, focusing mainly on the northern Mono County area, reporting on lakes, rivers and streams from Bridgeport north.
  • California Steelhead Fishing – Every winter thousands of ocean going Rainbow Trout leave the Pacific ocean and return to California rivers and creeks where they were born, making California the ideal winter steelhead destination.
  • Search the Outdoors is a directory of outdoor related websites providing people with outdoor interests a portal to outdoor related websites.
  • Webring.org - list of outdoor related websites
  • Boy Scouts of America, Monterey Bay Council
  • Girl Scouts of America, Monterey Bay Area
  • The C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation was formed in 1991 to join volunteers who love to fish with disabled and disadvantaged children for a day of fishing in the outdoors
  • Travel with Kids from About.com

Other Products and Services

  • Zen Backpacking Stoves, a comprehensive guide to backpacking stoves for the lightweight backpacker with an emphasis on alcohol stoves. Detailed information on stove types, use, comparisons, and instructions for DIY stoves.
  • Pajaro Valley Rod and Gun Club, situated on Kelly Lake, near Watsonville, CA, has lake access for fishing, an indoor range for handguns and small-bore rifle, and a meeting hall. 831/724-7311.
  • Dirt Road Adventures Experience the Great American West. Travel the roads that lead to the heart of where you want to be. Enjoy Mountain fishing, forest hunting, desert camping, wilderness hiking, all in this treasure that came to be known as our Great American West! We’ll show you the way.
  • Children & Nature Network: Building a movement to reconnect Children and Nature. Concerns about long-term consequences — affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness — have spawned a national movement to “Leave No Child Inside.” It is becoming the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grass-roots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a “green hour” in each day.
  • The California Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights, endorsed back in July by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, lists 10 activities kids should experience by the time they turn 14:
    1. Discover California’s Past
    2. Splash in the water
    3. Play in a safe place
    4. Camp under the stars
    5. Explore nature
    6. Learn to swim
    7. Play on a team
    8. Follow a trail
    9. Catch a fish
    10. Celebrate their heritage
  • See us on ReferralSantaCruz.com, the local Santa Cruz County restaurant hotel and business guide. Find local reviews and the top 5 businesses rated by local Santa Cruz County residents
  • The Santa Cruz Spot
    The complete online guide to the Santa Cruz County area, with accommodation, real estate, business and local information.
  • The Monterey Spot
    The complete online guide to the Monterey County area, with accommodation, real estate, business and local information.
  • Cannery Row Hotels are located on the historic Cannery Row; just three blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one block to the shops and restaurants at Cannery Row, one block to the Pacific Ocean.
  • NationalOutdoors.net, National Parks | Outdoor Magazine | Outdoor Gear Store
  • Fishing, Hunting & Wildlife Products and Information Hunting and fishing videos and dvd’s, wildlife art prints, species identification, links to thousands of fishing and hunting sites and much more.
  • We’re featured in Buyer’s Index, a search engine & directory of over 20,000 web shopping sites and mail order catalogs with over 300 million product offerings for your home or business
  • uscity.net: Internet Business Directory for the United States
  • GetNetWise can help parents to educate themselves and their children about how to use the Internet safely

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