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The 40 best California experiences: Fall edition

From a lighthouse in Crescent City, to trees changing colors in the Sierra, to funky art installations near the Salton Sea, these are the best things to do in the Golden State in the fall. Tell us which places we left off our list.

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Column One: Hiking Mt. Whitney is tough. With a spinal cord injury, it’s an endless suffer-fest

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LOS ANGELES, CA -- APRIL 21: Southwest Airlines ticketing kiosk and counters are vacant as the coronavirus outbreak has brought passenger traffic to a near halt with travel down 95% at LosAngeles International Airport, the nation's second busiest, on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Nicholas Goldberg: Airports to passengers: Do it yourself

Medical personnel tend to passengers as they disembark from the Grand Princess cruise ship at the Port of Oakland in California on March 09, 2020. - The cruise ship carrying thousands of people who were stranded for days due to a coronavirus outbreak docked at the port of Oakland, near San Francisco, on Monday. Authorities said it would take two or three days to get the 2,421 passengers off the ship that had been idling for days off the coast of California. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

This cruise ship had an infamous coronavirus outbreak. Now, it’s set to sail again

Jack Ryan Greener, at the end of his Mt. Whitney trip.

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LONG BEACH, CA - SEPTEMBER 13, 2021: Raven Fraser, 32, of Los Angeles, enjoys an outing with her dogs Kelly, left, a 6 year old golden retriever, and Bagels, a 3 year old corgi, at Rosie's Dog Beach in Long Beach, the only beach in L.A. county that allows dogs. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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