California Protected Areas Database Viewer

GreenInfo Network has developed the authoritative GIS database of all protected open space lands in California - over 49 million acres in over 55,000 separate holdings, owned by more than 900 public agencies and nonprofits. CPAD, the California Protected Areas Database, is now the most extensive state data set on protected lands in the United States. CPAD began with work by Greenbelt Alliance to inventory parks and open space in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the late 1990s, GreenInfo turned that text database into GIS data, mapping out all the lands. In the late 1990s and through the first decade of the 2000s, GreenInfo broadened the database to cover all of California. The inventory now ranges from small urban pocket parks to huge wildernesses, all mapped using the boundaries of official assessor ownership parcels. The main CPAD website, www.calands.org, enables download of the data, which is housed on the California GIS Data Portal. The CPAD data can also be viewed at www.ParkInfo.org, which helps anyone find parks, campgrounds and more in California. https://www.greeninfo.org/work/project/cpad-the-california-protected-areas-database