To understand more about the discriminatory, hypocritical policies of most (not all!) of California's state parks, read the full post here: 2cycle2gether.com/2012/01/rant/
The state parks that were GREAT & did not participate in poor policy implementation (that we stayed at - there could be others that we did not visit): Half Moon Bay State Park, San Simeon State Park, Refugio State Park, Thornhill Broome Beach State Park, South Carlsbad State Park).