It’s a mess!” Elk Meadow, Elk Prairie, and the grassy areas behind Gold Bluffs Beach are three places visitors may see Roosevelt elk herds in Redwoods State Park. Photograph by NG Photographer ...

Former President Jimmy Carter once was offered a gift from Northern California: a 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree.

Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called 'O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago. "As the natural world became completely ...

but especially Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, which is our favorite (so far). Here’s an overview of this very special park, as well as some of the amazing trees that live here. Quick Facts ...

Years of logging have left less than 5 percent of the old-growth coastal redwood trees standing, most of them in the protected Redwood National and ... of the redwood park, and Crippens and ...