Park Management

Grants and Bonds
Over the last 38-years the Office has administered over $2 billion in local assistance grants. 

Planning
California State Parks' Planning Division provides  technical support and research for the management and development of California's public park and recreation lands and facilities.

General Plans
A general plan directs the long-range development and management of a State Park unit by defining broad policy and program guidance. This guidance is essential to the Department's managers and its staff, and is of value to those organizations and individuals who have a substantial interest in the State Park System and its units.

Districts
A listing of each State Park district's contact information.

Natural Resources Management
The Department has many policies, guidelines, programs, and activities that support its natural resource mission. Included are primary funding programs used to support the Department's wide variety of management activities, including habitat restoration, prescribed fire management, corrective and ongoing maintenance, and monitoring. In addition, information on many of the major subject areas of resource management planning and action is provided, such as geographic information systems (GIS), exotic species control, marine areas, and watershed management.

Archaeology, History and Museums
California State Parks is the steward of many of California’s most significant cultural treasures, preserving historic structures, archival documents, shipwrecks, gold rush towns, ancient villages and museum collections.