California to Add Three New State Parks, Bringing the Total to 283
On Earth Day, April 22, 2026, in Sacramento, the state capital in Sacramento County, California, Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom announced the State Parks Forward plan: three new state parks in the Central Valley, bringing the statewide total to 283, and a push to grow existing parks by 30,000 acres by the end of the decade. The Governor's office called it the biggest expansion of the State Park System in decades.
The three new parks span roughly 330 miles of the Central Valley. Feather River Park, in Olivehurst in Yuba County, covers nearly 2,000 acres along the Feather River and would be Yuba County's first state park, with a boat launch and a riverside beach planned. The San Joaquin River Parkway, in Fresno and Madera counties, joins multiple public properties into an 874-acre park along the river, complementing the nearby Millerton Lake State Recreation Area. Dust Bowl Camp, near Bakersfield in Kern County, covers about 2 acres on the site of the Sunset Migratory Labor Camp, one of the first federal camps for farm workers displaced by the Dust Bowl; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was an inspiration for John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.
The Governor's office said all three sites are publicly held and can be acquired at little to no cost to the state, and that SB 630 and AB 679, signed last year, streamline park expansion acquisitions. About 804 acres have already been added to three existing parks, including 453 acres added to Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County.
Source: Office of the Governor of California
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Photo: 图：Millerton Lake 州立游憩区湖光山色，新宣布的圣华金河公园道与该游憩区相邻互补（资料照片）。David Prasad 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Millerton Lake State Recreation Area; the newly announced San Joaquin River Parkway complements this recreation area nearby (file photo). Photo by David Prasad, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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