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Zion National Park
Virgin, Utah

Zion National Park is located in southwest Utah north of the Grand Canyon and west of Bryce Canyon National Parks.  Zion National Park has 229 square miles desert terrain at the meeting of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin and Mojave Desert.

Anza Borrego Desert State Park
Borrego Springs, California

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California and the second largest in the United States. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park includes more than 600,000 acres of deserts, rugged mountain ranges and the Carrizo Badlands near the Mexican border and the Salton Sea.

Santa Cruz Serenity
Santa Cruz, California 

Santa Cruz, California is located about 74 miles south of San Francisco along Highway 1. Santa Cruz has an eclectic population of 55,000 who enjoy year-round moderate weather. Santa Cruz is a very popular tourist destination attracting thousands of tourists to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Santa Cruz Wharf and the beautiful beaches. Santa Cruz is also a famous surfing, wind surfing, kite boarding and wake boarding destination.

California Sea Otters
Monterey Bay, California 

Since January 1977, California sea otters have been on the Endangered Species list They are protected by state and federal laws. Only about 2200 otters can be found off California’s central coast Sea Otters reside within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary which emcompasses 276 miles of shoreline and 5,322 square miles of ocean. Sea otters have incredibly fast metabolisms. A 60-pound adult sea otter eats at least 15 pounds of food (25% of its body weight) each and every day.