List of National Natural Landmarks In California (36 items)report

• [Name]: Amboy Crater
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  [Date]: May 1973
  [Location]: 34°31′11.69″N 115°43′26.92″W / 34.5199139°N 115.7241444°W / 34.5199139; -115.7241444
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management)
  [Description]: A 6,000-year-old volcanic cinder cone, made up of pahoehoe, just off historic U.S. Highway 66.
  

• [Name]: American River and Phoenix Park Vernal Pools
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1976
  [Location]: 38°39′10.33″N 121°12′59.95″W / 38.6528694°N 121.2166528°W / 38.6528694; -121.2166528
  [County]: Sacramento
  [Ownership]: Mixed- county, private
  [Description]: Contains vernal pools, and blue oak woodlands.
  

• [Name]: Año Nuevo State Reserve
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1980
  [Location]: 37°7′7.24″N 122°18′24.02″W / 37.1186778°N 122.3066722°W / 37.1186778; -122.3066722
  [County]: San Mateo
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: One of the largest mainland breeding grounds for the northern elephant seal.
  

• [Name]: Anza-Borrego Desert
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1974
  [Location]: 33°14′57.38″N 116°24′24.63″W / 33.2492722°N 116.4068417°W / 33.2492722; -116.4068417
  [County]: Imperial, Riverside, San Diego
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: The largest desert state park in the nation.
  

• [Name]: Audubon Canyon
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1968
  [Location]: 37°55′46.01″N 122°40′55.85″W / 37.9294472°N 122.6821806°W / 37.9294472; -122.6821806
  [County]: Marin
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: The largest known nesting area for great blue herons and great and snowy egrets on the Pacific Coast.
  

• [Name]: Black Chasm Cave
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  [Date]: 1976
  [Location]: 38°26′3.4″N 120°37′35.3″W / 38.434278°N 120.626472°W / 38.434278; -120.626472
  [County]: Amador
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: A small three-level cave containing a variety of speleothems and some of the best helictite formations in the western U.S.
  

• [Name]: Burney Falls
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1984
  [Location]: 41°0′43.79″N 121°39′7″W / 41.0121639°N 121.65194°W / 41.0121639; -121.65194
  [County]: Shasta
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: Contains some of the best examples in the western United States of a river drainage regulated by stratigraphically-controlled springs.
  

• [Name]: Cima volcanic field
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1973
  [Location]: 35°17′21.95″N 115°35′6.99″W / 35.2894306°N 115.5852750°W / 35.2894306; -115.5852750
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: Federal (Mojave National Preserve)
  [Description]: A complex of over 20 large cinder cones of recent origin with extensive and continuous lava flows.
  

• [Name]: Cosumnes River Preserve
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1976
  [Location]: 38°15′56.57″N 121°26′21.22″W / 38.2657139°N 121.4392278°W / 38.2657139; -121.4392278
  [County]: Sacramento
  [Ownership]: Mixed- private, federal
  [Description]: A small remnant of a rapidly-disappearing riparian woodland community type that once formed a major part of the central valley.
  

• [Name]: Deep Springs Marsh
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1975
  [Location]: 37°20′00″N 118°01′03″W / 37.33333°N 118.01750°W / 37.33333; -118.01750
  [County]: Inyo
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: An example of increasingly rare desert marsh.
  

• [Name]: Dixon Vernal Pools
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1987
  [Location]: 38°16′31.29″N 121°49′25.49″W / 38.2753583°N 121.8237472°W / 38.2753583; -121.8237472
  [County]: Solano
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: The best example of valley needlegrass grassland in the central valley.
  

• [Name]: Elder Creek
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1964
  [Location]: 39°43′32.04″N 123°37′34.35″W / 39.7255667°N 123.6262083°W / 39.7255667; -123.6262083
  [County]: Mendocino
  [Ownership]: Private (University of California Natural Reserve System)
  [Description]: A largely undisturbed watershed containing large old stands of Douglas fir, broadleaf evergreens, and deciduous trees.
  

• [Name]: Emerald Bay
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1968
  [Location]: 38°57′25.49″N 120°5′36.3″W / 38.9570806°N 120.093417°W / 38.9570806; -120.093417
  [County]: El Dorado
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: An outstanding example of glacial geology.
  

• [Name]: Eureka Dunes
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1983
  [Location]: 37°5′45.6″N 117°40′30″W / 37.096000°N 117.67500°W / 37.096000; -117.67500
  [County]: Inyo
  [Ownership]: Federal (Death Valley National Park)
  [Description]: The tallest dune complex in the Great Basin.
  

• [Name]: Fish Slough Area of Critical Environmental Concern
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1975
  [Location]: 37°28′8.69″N 118°24′3.1″W / 37.4690806°N 118.400861°W / 37.4690806; -118.400861
  [County]: Inyo, Mono
  [Ownership]: Mixed- federal (Bureau of Land Management), state, municipal
  [Description]: A large, essentially undisturbed, desert wetland that provides habitat for the alkali mariposa lily and the endangered Owens pupfish.
  

• [Name]: Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1974
  [Location]: 34°57′56.13″N 120°39′1.24″W / 34.9655917°N 120.6503444°W / 34.9655917; -120.6503444
  [County]: San Luis Obispo
  [Ownership]: Mixed- federal (Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge), state, private)
  [Description]: A coastal dune tract with off-road vehicle recreation, a national wildlife refuge, beaches, and nesting for the western snowy plover.
  

• [Name]: Imperial Sand Hills
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1966
  [Location]: 32°55′0″N 115°3′0″W / 32.91667°N 115.05000°W / 32.91667; -115.05000
  [County]: Imperial
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management)
  [Description]: One of the largest dune patches in the United States.
  

• [Name]: Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 2006
  [Location]: 33°43′53.4″N 117°41′34.8″W / 33.731500°N 117.693000°W / 33.731500; -117.693000
  [County]: Orange
  [Ownership]: Mixed- state, county, municipal
  [Description]: A remarkably complete stratigraphic succession ranging in age from late Cretaceous to the present.
  

• [Name]: Lake Shasta Caverns
  [Image]:
  [Date]: May 2012
  [Location]: 40°48′16.2″N 122°18′15.98″W / 40.804500°N 122.3044389°W / 40.804500; -122.3044389
  [County]: Shasta
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: A well-decorated Solutional cave that contains a diverse assemblage of calcite cave formations.
  

• [Name]: Miramar Mounds
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1972
  [Location]: 32°50′43″N 117°8′19″W / 32.84528°N 117.13861°W / 32.84528; -117.13861
  [County]: San Diego
  [Ownership]: Federal (Marine Corps Air Station Miramar)
  [Description]: Contains unique soil features called mima mounds, which are found in only three or four locations in the country, and vernal pools.
  

• [Name]: Mitchell Caverns and Winding Stair Cave
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1975
  [Location]: 34°56′26.97″N 115°30′51.97″W / 34.9408250°N 115.5144361°W / 34.9408250; -115.5144361
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: Regarded as the most important solution caverns in the Mojave Desert.
  

• [Name]: Mt. Diablo State Park
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1982
  [Location]: 37°52′37.75″N 121°55′25.79″W / 37.8771528°N 121.9238306°W / 37.8771528; -121.9238306
  [County]: Contra Costa
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: One of the few areas in the region where geologic strata of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary age can be seen in an aggregate thickness of 42,000 feet (13,000 m).
  

• [Name]: Mount Shasta
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1976
  [Location]: 41°24′35.6″N 122°11′41.52″W / 41.409889°N 122.1948667°W / 41.409889; -122.1948667
  [County]: Siskiyou
  [Ownership]: Federal (Shasta-Trinity National Forest)
  [Description]: One of the world's largest and most impressive stratovolcanoes, within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
  

• [Name]: Pixley Vernal Pools
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1987
  [Location]: 35°59′3.85″N 119°12′45.04″W / 35.9844028°N 119.2125111°W / 35.9844028; -119.2125111
  [County]: Tulare
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: One of the few remaining natural vernal pools containing rare endemic plant species such as vernal pool fairy shrimp.
  

• [Name]: Point Lobos
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1967
  [Location]: 36°31′1.56″N 121°56′33.36″W / 36.5171000°N 121.9426000°W / 36.5171000; -121.9426000
  [County]: Monterey
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: An outstanding example of terrestrial and marine environments in close association, and the only known habitat of Monterey cypress and variegated brodiaea.
  

• [Name]: Pygmy Forest at Jug Handle State Natural Reserve
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 19691973
  
  [Location]: 39°22′29.3″N 123°47′22.15″W / 39.374806°N 123.7894861°W / 39.374806; -123.7894861
  [County]: Mendocino
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: Includes a five step ecological staircase on which a unique forest of low, stunted trees and shrubs is located.
  

• [Name]: Rainbow Basin
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1966
  [Location]: 35°1′46″N 117°2′12″W / 35.02944°N 117.03667°W / 35.02944; -117.03667
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management)
  [Description]: Deep erosion canyons with rugged rims with fossil evidence of insects and Miocene mammals.
  

• [Name]: La Brea Tar Pits (Rancho La Brea)
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1964
  [Location]: 34°3′46.62″N 118°21′21.49″W / 34.0629500°N 118.3559694°W / 34.0629500; -118.3559694
  [County]: Los Angeles
  [Ownership]: Municipal (City of Los Angeles)
  [Description]: Site of the world-famous natural asphalt tar pits.
  

• [Name]: San Andreas Fault
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1965
  [Location]:
  [County]: San Benito
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: One of the best illustrations of earth displacement caused by small crustal movements.
  

• [Name]: San Felipe Creek Area
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1974
  [Location]: 33°10′11″N 115°49′19″W / 33.16972°N 115.82194°W / 33.16972; -115.82194
  [County]: Imperial, San Diego
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management), state
  [Description]: A marsh containing probably the last remaining perennial natural desert stream in the Colorado Desert region.
  

• [Name]: Sand Ridge Wildflower Preserve
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1984
  [Location]: 35°18′31.26″N 118°47′24.29″W / 35.3086833°N 118.7900806°W / 35.3086833; -118.7900806
  [County]: Kern
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: A remnant natural area displaying a great diversity of floral species including the Bakersfield cactus.
  

• [Name]: Sharktooth Hill
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1976
  [Location]: 35°26′30.57″N 118°56′26.18″W / 35.4418250°N 118.9406056°W / 35.4418250; -118.9406056
  [County]: Kern
  [Ownership]: Private
  [Description]: One of the most abundant, diverse and well- preserved fossil marine vertebrate sites in the world.
  

• [Name]: Tijuana River Estuary
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1973
  [Location]: 32°33′7.2″N 117°7′9.59″W / 32.552000°N 117.1193306°W / 32.552000; -117.1193306
  [County]: San Diego
  [Ownership]: Federal (Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve), state, municipal
  [Description]: One of the finest remaining saltwater marshes on the California coastline.
  

• [Name]: Torrey Pines State Reserve
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1977
  [Location]: 32°54′59.58″N 117°14′58.7″W / 32.9165500°N 117.249639°W / 32.9165500; -117.249639
  [County]: San Diego
  [Ownership]: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation)
  [Description]: Contains a natural Torrey pine forest, high bluffs and sea cliffs, and endangered bird species.
  

• [Name]: Trona Pinnacles
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1967
  [Location]: 35°37′3.81″N 117°22′5.08″W / 35.6177250°N 117.3680778°W / 35.6177250; -117.3680778
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management)
  [Description]: A relict landform from the Pleistocene containing unique formations of calcium carbonate.
  

• [Name]: Turtle Mountain
  [Image]:
  [Date]: 1973
  [Location]: 34°19′5.53″N 114°51′7.28″W / 34.3182028°N 114.8520222°W / 34.3182028; -114.8520222
  [County]: San Bernardino
  [Ownership]: Federal (Bureau of Land Management), state
  [Description]: Contains two mountain sections of entirely different composition.
  

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