For great hiking and views near San Francisco, head to this state park with misty redwood trails, plenty of campsites and cabins, and sweeping ocean vistas.

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Fall into the ocean? No. Of course ... shoving up the Himalayan Mountains. And in California, two plates are slipping past one another horizontally at the San Andreas Fault.

Help care for a vibrant pollinator habitat garden at Ocean Song Preserve, explore Saddle Mountain Preserve on a guided hike ...

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These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition ...