Huell tours Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Established in 1902, it's California's oldest State Park and is celebrating its centennial.
Huell goes to California Citrus State Historic Park in Riverside, an open air museum which recaptures the days when "citrus was king" in California. The park preserves citrus history and its groves continue to produce high-quality fruit.
Huell Howser travels to Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park, home to a Taoist Temple of Worship and the oldest still-in-use Chinese Temple in California. The temple became part of the California State Park System in 1956.
Because it was the site of the northern-most gold strike, Shasta, six miles west of Redding, was a prosperous city and county seat from 1850 to 1890. Huell tours Shasta State Historic Park, including ruins of Gold Rush-era brick buildings.
Huell goes to Lassen Volcanic National Park to see the lava flows, jagged craters and steaming sulfur vents that make up some of Lassen's breathtaking landscape.
This state park near Morro Bay is named for the mountain of golden wildflowers that bloom there in the spring. Huell discovers the park's boundless natural beauty which also includes rugged cliffs, secluded beaches, streams and canyons.
Huell travels to Sutter's Fort State Historic Park in midtown Sacramento. The park marks the 1839 settlement that would become the state's capital and play a major role in California history when gold was discovered nearby in 1848.
San Diego became California's first Spanish outpost when a mission and fort were built in 1769. Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, the most visited State Park, recreates life in the Mexican and early American periods of 1821 to 1872.
Huell goes to see the statue and museum overlooking San Diego Bay at Cabrillo National Monument, which commemorates Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's 1542 expedition, the first Europeans to set foot on what would become the west coast of the USA.