Channel Islands National Park

Arch Point, Santa Barbara Island: With winter rains, the coreopsis emerges from summer's dormancy with light green foliage and bright yellow daisy-like flowers
Channel Islands National Park encompasses five remarkable islands and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Isolation over thousands of years has created unique animals, plants, and archeological resources found nowhere else on Earth and helped preserve a place where visitors can experience coastal southern California as it once was.
Map showing location of park.
Trail passing along a partially burned area
Channel Islands National Park Announces Limited Reopening of Santa Rosa Island Day Use Beginning July 1
Channel Islands National Park will reopen Santa Rosa Island for day use beginning July 1, following preliminary assessments of post-fire conditions on the island.
Map of a diamond-shaped island showing burned area in the southeast.
Santa Rosa Island Closed to Visitors until at Least June 30
Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park, will remain closed to visitors until at least June 30 following the Santa Rosa Island Fire, a human-caused wildfire that burned less than 40 percent of the island.
Steep, rugged ocean cliffs extending in an island chain.
Photo by Tim Hauf, timhaufphotography.com
Yellow flowers in foreground extending out along a rocky coastline to a natural arch.
Photo by Tim Hauf, timhaufphotography.com
Pine tree high on a ridge overlooking a bay with blue water and white sand beach.
Photo by Tim Hauf, timhaufphotography.com
Brown seals and sea lions on white sand beach with blue water and partly cloudy sky.
Photo by Tim Hauf, timhaufphotography.com
Rust and grey colored fox in green grass.
Photo by Tim Hauf, timhaufphotography.com