Redwood National State Park

Tanya on Trinidad, CA. Beach

Redwood National State Park

The boundary of this National Park encloses three earlier state parks: Prairie Creek, Del Norte and Jedediah Smith. They are also a part of a World Heritage Site and the California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve which includes and protects miles of Pacific shorelines, rivers and streams, estuaries meadows and prairies.

The park is located on the Pacific coast in the far north of the State of California. US Highway 101 runs through it from north to south and US 199 passes through the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park section.

These parks are wonderful to visit.

The most prominent living feature of the parks, the immense and amazing Coast Redwood trees, probably covered almost two million acres when they were “discovered” by European explorers in the 1790s but by the 1920s so many had been cut that without legal protection they could all have been eliminated.

As it is, not many have survived the greed of the loggers of an earlier day but fortunately for us, State of California legislators preserved a few of the remaining groves in the 1920s and the US congress created his super-park in 1968.

To walk in these silent, awe-inspiring groves of giant trees is an experience which I hope you too may have some day.

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