Fodor's Expert Review Channel Islands National Park Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center

Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center

The park's fully accessible visitor center has a three-story observation tower with telescopes, a bookstore, and a museum. A 24-minute film, Treasure in the Sea, provides an engaging overview of the islands, and, in the marine life exhibit, sea stars cling to rocks, and a brilliant orange Garibaldi darts around. Also on display are full-size reproductions of a male northern elephant seal and the pygmy mammoth skeleton unearthed on Santa Rosa Island in 1994.

On weekends and holidays at 11 am and 3 pm, rangers lead various free public programs describing park resources, and, from Wednesday through Saturday in summer, the center screens live ranger broadcasts of hikes and dives on Anacapa Island. Webcam images of bald eagles and other land and sea creatures are also shown at the center and on the park's website.

Visitor Center

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1901 Spinnaker Dr.
Ventura, California  93001, USA

805-658–5730

www.nps.gov/chis

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