Channel Islands National Park sits just off the Ventura coast, but you can't drive there, fly commercially, or see much of it ...

Just an hourlong ferry ride from the coast of southern California is the only place in the world you can see what might also be one of the world’s cutest apex predators: the island fox. This small ...

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 ...

California's Channel Islands are home to 13,000-year-old human remains and ancient settlements that could rewrite the story ...

Introduction / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- The ecological, environmental, and cultural contexts for island archaeology / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- Points in space ...

Channel Islands National Park is full of superlatives. By mileage, it is the closest national park to Los Angeles and its nearly 4 million residents. But Channel Islands is also one of the ...

California is home to nine national parks, the most of any state in the country, and the closest one to Los Angeles might be the most unique. Channel Islands National Park is made up of eight islands ...