Every year on Father's Day, my wife and daughter know exactly what I want: a family day trip to Angel Island State Park. It's the one day of the year that I can get us all to cross the Golden Gate ...

Little known to most Bay Area visitors is the fact that six wars were fought from the middle of San Francisco Bay without a shot being fired in anger. Visitors to Angel Island State Park -- best known ...

90 miles east of Sacramento, is a spot accessible only by boat and steeped in California. History has kind of, ah, sorted history in parts. This is Angel Island. At 640 acres, it's the largest island ...

A California state park since 1958, Angel Island is several times larger -- and far more picturesque -- than its stony, forbidding sister, Alcatraz, site of the infamous penitentiary abandoned since ...