Are you planning a pilgrimage to visit the tallest trees in the world? The old-growth redwoods on the California coast are kings and queens of the forest, and if you’re traveling north through ...

By Marlowe Starling The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more ...

Nearly two years after a massive wildfire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, parts of the park are set to reopen this summer, allowing visitors the opportunity to ...

After a massive wildfire swept through California's Big Basin Redwood State Park in 2020, the state's iconic trees appeared to be dying. But then, something incredible happened: Tiny sprouts began to ...

There is no more iconic tree or more closely watched forest ecosystem than coast redwood. With its limited range and high value, the coast redwood forest is a microcosm of many of the emerging science ...

At hundreds to thousands of years old, California's iconic redwoods -- the tallest trees in the world -- have truly stood the test of time. But all of our atmospheric river storms have left them with ...

Thick gray clouds of smoke cover the California sky as massive redwood trees, some of the oldest trees on earth, burn at California’s oldest state park: Big Basin Redwoods State Park. For many people ...

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which mostly burned in 2020, has done a lot of regreening in the four years since. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) It's a life, death and disaster hike. Yet ...

You seem to be shrinking. You’re hiking through dense Northern California greenery, passing from a dirt path to an elevated walkway. And the trees are getting taller. Somewhere nearby, a bird calls ...

In June 2024, beneath the towering redwoods of Northern California, Leila Noone twisted, turned and flowed through the air, suspended by nothing but a single knot of her own hair. For 25 minutes and ...

You seem to be shrinking. You’re hiking through dense Northern California greenery, passing from a dirt path to an elevated walkway. And the trees are getting taller. Somewhere nearby, a bird calls ...