Tourists have been visiting regularly since chewing gum mogul William Wrigley Jr. bought the Santa Catalina Island Company, which developed the island, in 1919 with the intention of creating an ...

Santa Catalina Island is one of the most remote pieces of Los Angeles County, part of a 20-million-year-old archipelago in the Pacific Ocean known as the Channel Islands.

You can hike and camp at a remote beach on Santa Catalina Island's wild side. And there's an easy way to do it. Amid COVID-19, hike and camp safely on Catalina's wild side - Los Angeles Times ...

For more than 7,000 years, humans have been enjoying the cool breezes, clear blue water and great fishing of Santa Catalina Island, one of the eight rocky islands that wreath the coast of Southern ...

Santa Catalina Island, though just a roughly one hour boat ride from Long Beach, has always been somewhat of a mystery for me — despite my being a lifelong resident of the South Bay.

That was the vision of William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gum magnate who purchased Santa Catalina in 1919 and built many of its landmarks to draw visitors.

The hike to the highest point on the west end of Santa Catalina Island -- 1804-foot Silver Peak --introduces you to its wild windward side. Spectacular views are the norm most of the way.

FILE - Catalina Island Conservancy Airport Manager Justin Bollum looks out of the airport tower as U.S. Marines and Navy Seabees rebuild the mountaintop runway on Santa Catalina Island, Calif ...

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FILE - A small plane lands on Catalina's Airport in the Sky as the U.S. Marines and Navy Seabees rebuild the mountaintop runway on storied Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Friday, Jan. 25, 2019.