California redwood road trip: 5 memorable ways to experience the massive trees. Established in 1902, Big Basin Redwoods State Park is California's oldest state park, preserving more than 18,000 acres.

Those stands of old-growth redwoods, which now account for only 5% of all redwood trees, can store more carbon than any other forest on the planet. They have unique ways of reproducing. They produce ...

Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitors center ...

Photos taken in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, about 1 mile from headquarters, in April 2021, left, and Nov. 15, 2023, show the dramatic recovery from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire.

You can't grow a big tree without a lot of water. And in the summer, that cold water meets the warm air and creates a lot of fog. - [Lucy] There's physiological complications with pulling water ...

Over the past 30 years, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has made its name on cloning more than 130 tree species across the country, including giant sequoias and 3,000-year-old California redwoods.

A brunch sprouts from a burned redwood tree at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Originally Published: August 20, 2024 at 10:20 AM PDT ...

Are you the owner of a big dawn redwood? It could be eligible for inclusion on the Michigan Big Tree Register. This sequoia species is known to grow up to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter ...

Naomi Beary of Berkeley poses by a fallen redwood tree on a visit to Big Basin Redwoods State Park with her friend, Toad Sappington of Oakland, left, on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay ...

A recently published multi-year study conducted at Big Basin Redwoods State Park shows that long-stored carbon reserves and ancient, dormant buds within redwood trees allow the plants to recover fa… ...

Photos taken in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, about 1 mile from headquarters, in April 2021, left, and Nov. 15, 2023, show the dramatic recovery from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire.