Half Moon Bay is one of California's underrated beach towns, and not only because ... which are home to epic redwoods in a vast forest. Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve is a unique recreation ...

“It offers some exceptionally big trees set in an old-growth forest along the ... Gold Bluffs Beach, Mill Creek, and Jedediah Smith. Fees: Although Redwood National Park doesn’t have an ...

Located between Corona del Mar and Laguna Beach along the Pacific Coast Highway ... making it the largest intact redwood forest left on Earth. Visitors should drive the 32-mile Avenue of the ...

or fall into a crevice on the trail above and tumble down forest duff until hitting the soft wall of a redwood. (We recommend the first option.) Here you’ll likely be all alone save for random ...

Redwood National and State Parks ... a 12-mile loop through old-growth redwoods, spruce forest, fern canyon, and a golden-sand beach. If time is short and you can do only one thing here ...

To process her grief, she drives from New York to California’s Redwood forest to escape the big city and her feelings. There, she befriends two arborists who let her climb a towering Redwood ...