Discover why scientists are chopping down redwood trees… to save them. Redwood National and State Parks are home to some of the tallest trees on Earth, coast redwoods. These ancient California forests ...

An ongoing study by a Cal Poly Humboldt professor seeks to find whether thinning in Redwood National Park helped local forests weather last year’s Lost Fire, which scorched roughly 800 acres. Forest ...

It’s hard to describe a place like Redwood National and State Parks. “We struggle with this on a daily basis, how to convey the feeling of it, because it's not just the math,” said Patrick Taylor, ...

The Boy Scout Tree Trail offers a 2.8-mile hike through old-growth redwoods in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Expect ...

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to state that the Lost fire is the fire that moved downslope from second growth to old growth. A different fire, the ...

Editor's note: The ghost pipe is rare in California, and the National Park Service discourages visitors from touching or picking the plant for any reason. “Is that it?” my friend Jonah asks, pointing ...

Some 125 acres of forest land in California's Redwood National and State Parks will return to the Yurok tribe in a first-of-its-kind arrangement. An important parcel of land in Northern California is ...

Steve Mietz, Redwood National and State Parks superintendent said during a town hall in Orick that the Glenn Fire is likely to get into some old growth redwoods. The fire is contained, he noted, and ...

The rain had finally stopped, but water seemed to be coming from everywhere on the Trillium Falls Trail in Redwood National and State Parks. The trail had flooded the path in multiple places. Water ...

Sunset in Point Lobos State Park. California is a land of striking geographic contrasts—towering mountains rise alongside lush forests, while deserts brush up against fertile agricultural valleys. You ...

The hike combines steep sections, quiet forest paths, and sweeping views of old-growth redwoods. An unmarked side trail ...