Tolowa Dunes State Park is a

California State Park The California Department of Parks and Recreation, more commonly known as California State Parks, manages the California state parks system. The system administers 279 separate park units on 1.4 million acres (570,000 hectares), with over 280 ...

located in

Del Norte County ), in California , seat_type = County seat , seat = Crescent City , parts_type = Largest city , parts = Crescent City , unit_pref = US , area_total_sq_mi = 1230 , area_land_sq_mi = 1006 , area_water_sq_mi = 223 , elevation_max_footnote ...

, on the

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. The park encompasses

Lake Earl Lake Earl is a lagoon on the extreme northern California coast, just south of the Oregon border. A navigable body of water, it lies partly within Tolowa Dunes State Park and partly within Lake Earl Wildlife Area in Del Norte County, California a ...

, Lake Tolowa, and a significant portion of the relatively large coastal plain around them including

Yontocket, California Yontocket (Tolowa: ''Yan’-daa-k’vt'') is an unincorporated community in Del Norte County, California located west-southwest of Smith River, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m) alongside Yontocket Slough.Michael Love and AssociatesPDF:Yontocke ...

. Tolowa Dunes State Park is a sanctuary for bird life. It is easily reached by

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, and is just north of Crescent City. The name refers to the

Tolowa The Tolowa people or Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’ are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethno-linguistic group. Two rancherias (Smith River and Elk Valley) still reside in their traditional territory in northwestern California. Tho ...

people, an

indigenous peoples of California The indigenous peoples of California (known as Native Californians) are the indigenous inhabitants who have lived or currently live in the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans. ...

tribe whose homeland was in the area, and relatively undisturbed previous to American colonization in the 1850s.

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State parks of California Parks in Del Norte County, California Crescent City, California 1925 establishments in California Protected areas established in 1925 {{DelNorteCountyCA-geo-stub

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