San Mateo and Redwood City should reach the mid-70s. Gusts up to 25 mph are possible through the San Bruno Gap in the afternoon and evening. Clouds and coastal fog will return overnight with lows ...

Fog plays a critical role in ecosystems like California’s redwood forests: “Between 35 and 40% of all the water that comes into the forest every year comes from coastal fog smashing into the ...

When to go: Redwood is a year-round destination with weather that can be cool, windy, and rainy in any season. Summers are warmer and drier, but fog can creep in from the Pacific. The other three ...

Filthy and exhausted, surrounded by hundreds of towering redwood columns that were raining their captured fog on my head, I stood there overwhelmed by a scene straight out of the Jurassic.

Add to this intermittent drizzle and fog, and you’ve got the makings of photographic frustration. Enter our hero: the rhododendron. Deep in the old-growth forests of Redwood National and State Parks ...

Canada looks forward to a ‘January thaw’ every year. What is it?