Pinnacles National Monument in central California is now Pinnacles National Park, the newest in the United States national park system. This would be the 59th park so designated. Getting Pinnacles to this status was the work of both parties, a rarity in an age of political polarization.
Pinnacles is a place of lovely rock formations that often rise from a thick fog that regularly embraces areas of California close to the sea. The landscape is abundant in life typical of what one would expect from California chaparral, and the park represents a California that has very much been neglected and/or developed over. Pinnacles has long caught the attention of nature lovers; in 1908 Theodore Roosevelt made it one of the first national monuments.
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