Blue mounds state park articles
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Opinion: Californians love the state's parks. We just don't know they're state parks
When Dos Rios Ranch opens to visitors next month in the San Joaquin Valley, California will have 280 state parks — making it one of the nation’s largest systems, as well as one of its most popular, with about 70 million visitors a year. Who knew? The short answer is: hardly anyone. Over the past 20 years I’ve asked several thousand Californians to name five state parks. Fewer than 5% can do so. And most of these baffled respondents are outdoorsy folks — the kind of people I meet on the trail or...
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Utah State Parks releases name of man who died at Sand Hollow State Park
HURRICANE — The Utah Division of State Parks released the name of the man who died while swimming at Sand Hollow State Park on Saturday. Just after 2:20 p.m., Christian Jeffrey Fisher from Las Vegas, Nevada, was swimming with friends in the dive park area at Sand Hollow State Park. While swimming, Fisher’s friends reportedly […]
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Marshall Ramsey: Delta State Blues
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