{"id":19881,"date":"2025-10-23T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:11:07","slug":"2-california-parks-make-2025s-list-of-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19881\/","title":{"rendered":"2 California parks make 2025&#8217;s list of most beautiful places in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/travel-top-ten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full of natural beauty<\/a>, from towering waterfalls to wind-sculpted mountains to atolls wrapped in rainbows of coral.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/07\/17\/the-grueling-135-mile-journey-of-a-66-year-old-runner-through-one-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Valley<\/a>, a desert that claims the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_Valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">world-record high of 134 degrees<\/a> and bears geographic names like Hells Gate and Amargosa Chaos. Nevertheless, Conde Nast Traveller considered Death Valley worthy of inclusion in its October story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveller.com\/gallery\/most-beautiful-places-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The 71 most beautiful places in the world<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most popular locations is the multihued Artists Palette, a series of eroded hills whose coloring is due to the oxidation of natural metal deposits in the mountains,\u201d the magazine raved. \u201c\u2018Star Wars\u2019 fans will be keen to see the site that inspired the planet Tatooine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers). Here are the first 10 destinations on CN Traveller\u2019s accounting; check out the story for all 71 sites, which also throws a bone to Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>Conde Nast Traveller\u2019s most beautiful places on earth for 2025<\/p>\n<p>1 Pink Sands Beach, Harbour Island, Bahamas<\/p>\n<p>2 Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>3 Zhangye National Geopark, China<\/p>\n<p>4 Cappadocia, Turkey<\/p>\n<p>5 Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Paths lined by clover and ferns lead through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, which is part of the Redwood National and State Parks cluster in Northern California. (Getty Images)\" width=\"1928\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SJM-L-COASTAL-0414-14-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9172940\" \/>Paths lined by clover and ferns lead through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, which is part of the Redwood National and State Parks cluster in Northern California. (Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6 Cliffs of Moher, Ireland<\/p>\n<p>7 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico<\/p>\n<p>8 Valley of the Kings, Egypt<\/p>\n<p>9 Amalfi Coast, Italy<\/p>\n<p>10 Avenue of the Baobabs, Madagascar<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveller.com\/gallery\/most-beautiful-places-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cntraveller.com\/gallery\/most-beautiful-places-in-the-world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earth is full of natural beauty, from towering waterfalls to wind-sculpted mountains to atolls wrapped in rainbows of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,16447],"class_list":{"0":"post-19881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world-to-travel-holiday-in-2025-earth-california-redwoods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}