Here are the scenic stops to make along the way.

California is restoring 67 acres of former agricultural land at Ensen Community Park in Salinas into wetlands, grasslands and ...

For many of us, the world we live in has become so complex and fast-paced that we seek out ways to relax and recharge. Perhaps, in response to this, one of the new trends in contemporary landscaping ...

From the southern Salinas Valley, Steinbeck’s “pastures of heaven,” down through Monterey, San Luis Obispo and deep into Santa Barbara County, California’s natural landscape has been taken over and ...

California’s Vasquez Rocks have stood in for alien worlds for decades. A NASA satellite image reveals the famous landscape ...

California’s native jewelflowers, a group of plants that belong to the mustard family, grow in widely diverse landscapes and microclimates across the state. But until now, scientists didn’t understand ...

The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California's worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swaths of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires ...

A research team examined what happens to mountain snowpacks when sunny, midwinter dry spells occur in forests impacted by severe wildfire. The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California's ...