The trail, which runs 8.2 miles upstream through Redwood National Park to the famous Tall Tree, as it is simply known, seems about as close as you can get today to a complete redwood ecosystem.

A few groves of the trees' ancient empire stretches into Oregon as well. Here are my five favorite redwood trails, ... The largest redwood, Stout Tree, is 340 feet tall and 16 feet in diameter.

Two new studies find that without sustained intervention, California may permanently lose big sections of old-growth giant sequoia groves. The majestic trees only grow on the western slope of the ...

Redwood sprouts, on Friday May 3, 2013, began to grow into massive trees after the old growth groves were cut down in what is now Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, Calif.

Years ago, the park created a Tall Trees Trail so hikers could see a tree then designated as the world’s tallest tree. That tree no longer holds the title, but the trail features many redwood ...

Redwood Trees Shouldn't Be So Tall Posted By Steven Pomeroy On Date April 15, 2023 (via PBS Terra ) Beyond its iconic height, the Redwood Forest is sacred to the Yurok Tribe and a scientific frontier ...

The beautiful redwoods of Big Basin State Park may never be the same, but they still stand tall and are regrowing after the CZU Lightning Complex fires of 2020. What researchers wanted to know was ...

A biologist studies the Heart of Poseidon, a large, heart-shaped fern mat that grows in the canopy of the 224-foot-tall Poseidon Tree—an estimated 600 to 800 years old—in Redwood National and ...

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 ...

Redwoods are so large that one reportedly was found to house a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 8 feet tall, growing far off the ground within the larger tree. Redwoods also have served for ...

The idea that human beings could plant trees that grow more than 300 feet tall and live for 3,000 years sounds far fetched. Nature does that sorta stuff, not us. Unfortunately, things have reached ...