The California Redwoods
Looking up at the Giant Redwood Trees of Northern California
A visit to Northern California quickly guides travelers through the numerous national and state parks full of magnificent redwood trees. Where even the tallest man or woman can feel like a small child again, the California Redwoods often remind visitors just how young we humans truly are. Nothing can make someone feel more youthful than being surrounded by so many incredibly tall trees that in order to see the tops, they may have to literally lie on the ground.

Standing next to a tree that tops out at nearly three hundred feet tall and has been in that one place for up to two thousand years or more, a visitor can only wonder at nature and how it works to make and maintain such wonderful creations as the giant redwoods. In addition to the redwoods, spruce, hemlock, Douglas fir, berry bushes and even sword ferns create a magnificent almost canopy-like understory that towers over all visitors to the area parks.
Looking up at the Giant Redwood Trees of Northern California
A state highway surrounded by he Giant Redwood Trees of Northern California

Three California state park associations and one National Park Service unit work together to maintain the redwood forests of northern California. Along with the gigantic trees, they care for and assist in maintaining the beauty of the the numerous rivers and streams in the area as well as the thirty-seven miles of gorgeous Pacific coastline. They care; visitors enjoy; and nature continues to do what it was meant to do - grow and grow some more until the redwoods reach the sky.

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