Pinnacles National Park
West Side Educational Signs
West Side Educational Signs
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National Monument
1908 National Park 2012 Park Size 26,600 acres Annual Visitors 341,000 Park Fee $30 Superintendent Blanca Alvarez Stransky Park Partner Pinnacles National Park Foundation Location San Benito and Monterey Counties, CA |
Pinnacles National Park features rock spires, crags, sheer-walled canyons, boulder-covered caves, and rolling hills along Chalone Creek in the chaparral-covered Gabilan Mountains. The park protects ancestral lands of Chalon and Amah Mutsun peoples, and habitat for California condors, peregrine falcons, Townsend big-eared bats, and over 500 bee species.
The western side of the park has four sun-damaged educational signs and one outdated trailhead sign, leaving visitors without crucial wayfinding information, and education about the park's human history, geology, flora, and fauna. The Fund for People in Parks is supporting five new bilingual English/Spanish signs. The signs serve ~116,000 annual West Side entrants and realize a vision to engage traditionally underserved communities bordering the park. Funding Needed: $48,823 Project Approved: 2024 Investing in these interpretive signs is crucial for telling the stories of Pinnacles National Park by ensuring that the natural and cultural heritage of this unique location is celebrated and understood by as many visitors as possible. Through the addition of these interpretive elements, visitors will gain a deeper understanding of the human history intertwined with the natural landscape. The signs will serve as a bridge to the past, allowing visitors to connect with those who lived and worked there." |
A heavily sun-damaged sign
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Three of the educational signs will be replaced outside the West Side Ranger Contact Station
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