Jun 3rd, 2013 at 10:00AM: When it comes to giant California redwoods, size matters. Or at least that was my premise when I committed to a long detour that would take me through the state and national Redwood parks of Northern California in early May. A friend had suggested that I could visit Muir Woods, just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, to get my redwoods fix, but when I read that the biggest redwoods ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Searching For The World's Biggest Trees In California's Redwood Parks
Jun 3rd, 2013 at 10:00AM: When it comes to giant California redwoods, size matters. Or at least that was my premise when I committed to a long detour that would take me through the state and national Redwood parks of Northern California in early May. A friend had suggested that I could visit Muir Woods, just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, to get my redwoods fix, but when I read that the biggest redwoods ...Damnation Creek: Hiking Old-Growth To Ocean In Redwood National Park
Aug 22nd, 2012 at 10:00AM: There are few places on earth I love more than Redwoods National Park, located 325 miles north of San Francisco. Growing up, we used to drive up the coast every summer, and a few nights camping in the redwoods was always on the itinerary.
The Redwoods are actually several parks within the national and state system, all of which are managed cooperatively by the National Park Service and ...Google Street View Features California National Parks
Jul 31st, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Want to see Redwood National Park but don't have the time or money to make the trip? How about Yosemite or Death Valley? Thanks to the graciously, life-improving, expanding Internet, you can now take a stroll through five California national parks right on Google Street View. The Official Google Blog outlines this new step. While seeing these monumental landscapes in person cannot be ...Video: Albino Redwoods, a biological mystery
Feb 24th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
I recently spent 10 days exploring Northern California, magnetized by every patch of Redwood trees I saw. This wasn't my first trip to the area and it won't prove to be my last, either. There's something especially magnificent about Redwood trees. The limits of their growth are widely still unknown, but at their recorded tallest height (379 feet), the Giant Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) ...
Top 10 national parks, thanks to TripAdvisor
Jun 6th, 2009 at 12:00PM: More than 3,000 TripAdvisor readers in the United States have selected the top 10 national parks. Big shock: nine out of 10 are out west. Only Maine made it onto the list. But, let's face it – if you want big, impressive national parks, you have leave the East Coast.
These readers are definitely interested in the national park scene. More than 70 percent plan to visit one this year, up ...Road tripping to be easier this summer with lower gas prices
Apr 15th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Fill your tank, cut down a redwood and kick a polar bear in the 'nads ... gas is likely to stay cheap this summer! So, let the environment be damned, load up the Hummer and take the longest road trip of your life. The Energy Information Administration has great news for motorists: gas is expected to hang around an average of $2.23 a gallon this summer (more if you live in New York or California, I ...Photo of the Day (4/8/06) Perspiring Fungus
Apr 8th, 2006 at 11:24AM: With Earth Day approaching fast I thought this shot taken by Nicholas Stevenson of a 'perspiring fungus' on
a Redwood seemed rather fitting. For some reason Earth Day always generates pictures of tree huggers gathered in masses
and I say if you're going to be doing any tree hugging this April 22 you should hug a California Redwood at Redwood National Park. Judging from the detail of this awesome ...
