Channel Islands National Park is only a boat ride away the Los Angeles area, but visitors will feel like they’re a world away. ... Kids under 3 travel free. Featured Weekly Ad.

Some 145 species of animals are unique to the Channel Islands. Marine life ranges from kelp forests to the endangered blue whale. More than 2,000 species of plants and animals live in and around ...

We take for granted how much of a scientific wonderland exists on the Channel Islands, that eight-isle archipelago that stretches from San Nicolas Island off of the coast of San Diego all the way up ...