Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is located off Highway 1, some 26 miles south of Carmel and two miles south of the hamlet of Big Sur. This beautiful park features redwoods, conifers, oaks, sycamores, cottonwoods, maples, alders and willows – plus open meadows.
Navarro River Redwoods State Park is as long and skinny as the river corridor it protects.
Eleven miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, Muir Woods National Monument is a redwood sanctuary near San Francisco. Its coast redwoods are more than 250 feet high and 400 to 800 years old.
Winter is the time to see the waterfalls of Webb Creek along Mount Tam’s Steep Ravine Trail, a magical, redwood-lined path. If you want company, the Friends of Mount Tam hosts several hikes on the mountain each month, even moonlight hikes!
Montgomery Woods is one of the more remote redwood parks in California. Once you’ve navigated the 13 miles of twisty road west of Ukiah, you’ll be rewarded by some of the tallest trees in the world.
Extending from Ventura to Monterey, the Los Padres National Forest includes five major mountain ranges and 10 designated wildernesses.
Thirty-seven miles south of Carmel, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park showcases an exquisite 2-mile stretch of the central California coast.
Only 9 miles from downtown Oakland, Joaquin Miller Park offers amenities you can’t find in most cities: fern-lined creeks, wet meadows, redwood groves and oak woodlands.
ust east of Highway 101, about a dozen miles south of the Oregon border, Jedediah Smith’s 10,000 acres have more old-growth redwoods per acre than any other park in California. Save the Redwoods League helped protect over 5,500 acres in this park.
Just 5 miles from Santa Cruz, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park offers sunlit meadows, lush stream canyons, pine and oak forests and quiet walks through ancient redwoods. Some 30 miles of hiking trails wind through four different plant communities. The classic stroll is the 0.8-mile Redwood Grove Loop, which winds through coast redwoods up to 285 feet tall and 1,800 years old.
Some head to Standish Hickey to hike in its towering redwood forest; others come to leap into a sun-drenched swimming hole in the Wild and Scenic Eel River; still others arrive to relax and recharge in the historic Redwood Campground.
The 4,800-acre park is the largest state park on the Big Sur coast. Twenty miles of hiking trails wend around redwood groves, meadows and overlooks. Watch for California condors and migrating whales.
Vista of ancient redwoods along the Eel River PARK INFORMATION HIGHLIGHTS: Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area is off the beaten path and does not offer any facilities, but if you happen to be cutting through the woods here from …
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