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Just outside Santa Cruz is California's hiking and biking haven hidden among soaring redwoods

For a hiking and biking haven just outside of Santa Cruz, head to this gorgeous state park full of soaring redwoods and ...
Los Angeles Times

Charred by fire, these grand California redwoods rise again. How to hike among them

• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, near Santa Cruz, is recovering after fire scorched almost the entire park in 2020. • Of 115 miles of trails and fire roads in the park, 31.5 are open. More are to ...
SFGate

The rarest redwoods in the world can be found inside a Northern California state park

To visit the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt County is to be surrounded by the rich browns, deep reds and lush greens of the redwood forest. This iconic stretch of old Highway 101, now state Route ...
AOL

7 Best State Parks in California—Including a ‘Mini Yosemite’ and an Ancient Redwood Forest

California is a land of striking geographic contrasts—towering mountains rise alongside lush forests, while deserts brush up against fertile agricultural valleys. You can carve through snow on glacier ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Photo | Stepping into the light at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the ...