With the rays of early summer bouncing off the silver-grey shallows, the Channel Islands look plausibly similar to Aegean ...

If the crowds are getting a bit much, then it’s high time you took a trip to the Channel Islands National Park, an ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, we’re featuring guest writers (whom we’ve dubbed “wilders” ) from ...

The Channel Islands are home to one of the least frequented national parks in the U.S., but one of its visitor centers (now closed because of the pandemic) is in Ventura, just 70 miles north of Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group walked a narrow strip of road in the remote Channel Islands National Park on June 8, with ocean views on one side, and ...

“Out front, to the left!” the captain announces over the radio, as we cut through the inky-blue Santa Barbara Channel back to the California mainland. Slowing down, we all jump up as a humpback whale ...

One of the nation’s least-visited offshore refuges has been compared to the Galápagos—and the best way to meet its wild residents up close is with a double-bladed paddle. When I was a rookie beach ...