34 California State Parks Close As Wildfires Rage

Santa Cruz CA

21 August, 2020

7:16 PM

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — Thirty-four California State Parks have been closed to the public as firefighters battle clusters of fires across the Bay Area and state. California State Parks urged people Friday afternoon to refrain from traveling to parks, particularly those in the Bay Area, and Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Air quality in the region is very poor. Smoke from California's wildfires has spread across the state and as far as Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, according to the National Weather Service. Parks also present safety concerns, California State Parks said. In some cases, fires are burning in state parks. That includes Santa Cruz County's 18,000-acre Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which includes redwoods thought to be up to 1,800 years old. Read: Santa Cruz County's Big Basin 'As We Have Known It ... Is Gone' Parks have been closed near the following wildfires: CZU August Lightning Complex Fires Fully closed: Año Nuevo State Park (SP)Bean Hollow State Beach (SB)Big Basin Redwoods SP, including Rancho Del OsoButano SPCastle Rock SPCoast Dairies SPHenry Cowell Redwoods SP,including Fall CreekNatural Bridges SBPescadero SBPigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park (SHP)Pomponio SBPortola Redwoods SPSan Gregorio SBWilder Ranch SP Beach Fire Partially Closed: Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve (SNR) – portions of south side closed including South Tufa and Navy Beach (U.S. Forest Service). Deer Zone Fire Fully Closed: Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation AreaMount Diablo SP Dolan Fire Fully Closed: Andrew Molera SPGarrapata SPJulia Pfeiffer Burns SPJohn Little State Natural Reserve (SNR)Limekiln SPPfeiffer Big Sur SPPoint Lobos SNRPoint Sur SHP Jones Fire Partially Closed: Empire Mine State Historic Park (SHP)Malakoff Diggins SHPSouth Yuba River SP LNU Lightning Complex Fires Fully Closed: Armstrong Redwoods SNRAustin Creek State Recreation AreaFort Ross SHP SCU Lightning Complex Fires Fully Closed: Henry W. Coe SP Woodward Fire Fully Closed: Tomales Bay SP Partially Closed: Mount Tamalpais SP– upper mountain and campgrounds closed, day-use is strongly discouraged. Get the latest information on park closures here. See also: CA Fires Latest: 5 Dead, Over 770,000 Acres BurnedFire Weather Watch Issued; More Dry Thunderstorms PossibleSonoma County Lightning Complex FiresNapa County Lightning Complex FiresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz County Lightning Complex FiresEast Bay, South Bay Central Valley Lightning Complex FiresEvacuation Warning Area Expanded For Woodward Fire In Marin