{"id":2094,"date":"1994-05-01T01:26:19","date_gmt":"1994-05-01T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/huell-howser-archives\/1994\/05\/01\/california-state-park-californias-gold-505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:35:36","slug":"california-state-park-californias-gold-505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/1994\/05\/01\/california-state-park-californias-gold-505\/","title":{"rendered":"California State Parks &#8211; California&#039;s Gold (505)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Huell explores two of California&#8217;s most interesting State Parks: the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, located in the Eastern Mojave Desert, to see the famous Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve; and the Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, in the Sierra Nevadas, where we see a Miwok Indians legacy in a vast rock covered with thousands of grinding pits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve:<br \/>\n760-928-2586<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park:<br \/>\n209-296-7488<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Note: This episode was released across Public Broadcasting Service&#8217;s (PBS) affiliated stations in California, but not necessarily on the same day for each station. 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