Redwoods National and State Parks

After spending a few weeks with the big rocks, we headed north to see some big trees. We’d both had about enough of huge driving pushes, so spending a few days hiking and relaxing under 250+ foot trees sounded like a great way to break up the drive back to Canada. Unfortunately Dave had a bit of a cold, so there was more relaxing and less hiking, but it was truly a magnificent place to spend some recovery days.


Chillin' under a tree


Treehugger!

The national park includes a number of former state parks, and (oddly) some of the land between them that was clearcut a decade or two ago. This is described as "future old growth". There are still quite a few state parks in the area, and we actually camped in a state park just down the road from the national parks.


There were some smaller plants, too

The park is also home to a herd of elk – we thought it somewhat ironic that we came to California to see elk, but there you are…