Where can you see the California Ground Squirrel?
Some of the best places to see the California Ground Squirrel in the wild include Joshua Tree National Park (United States), Kings Canyon National Park (United States) and Sequoia National Park (United States) — among 8 wildlife hotspots across the United States and Mexico. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Death Valley National Park
Inyo County, United States
+339 birds+25 mammals
Across nearly 3.5 million acres of southeastern California's Inyo County, vast salt flats meet sculpted badlands and alluvial fans in a landscape so extreme it defines…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKDon Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Fremont, United States
+286 birds+20 mammals
Where the San Francisco Bay's shallow margins dissolve into tidal salt marshes and mudflats, this wildlife sanctuary preserves one of California's most ecologically vital estuarine systems.…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYEl Vizcaíno
Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico
+317 birds+29 mammals
Where the Baja California peninsula thins into a tapestry of salt lagoons and coastal desert, one of Mexico's most biodiverse reserves sprawls across half a million…
VIEW BIOSPHERE RESERVEJoshua Tree National Park
Riverside County, United States
+221 birds+23 mammals
Across 5,610 square kilometers of Riverside County's high desert, a landscape of geological drama unfolds where granite monoliths pierce through bajadas of creosote scrub and Joshua…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKKings Canyon National Park
Fresno County, United States
+186 birds+20 mammals
Where granite peaks fracture the Sierra Nevada skyline and the Kings River has carved one of North America's most dramatic canyons, a landscape of extreme relief…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKPinnacles National Park
San Benito County, United States
+197 birds+33 mammals
Jagged volcanic spires thrust from chaparral-covered ridges across 222 square kilometers of central California's inner Coast Ranges, their pale stone crowns catching the afternoon light like…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSequoia National Park
Tulare County, United States
+187 birds+27 mammals
Granite peaks rising above 3,600 meters dominate the southern Sierra Nevada, where Sequoia National Park sprawls across one of North America's most vertically compressed wilderness zones.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKYosemite National Park
Mariposa County, United States
+224 birds+28 mammals
Granite cliffs soar nearly a kilometer above the valley floor in this expanse of high Sierra wilderness, where glacial U-shaped valleys sculpt a landscape of dramatic…
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