There are trees and then there are California's giant redwood trees. Travel writer Sarah Sekula shows you the best spots and ways to see them.

A lush redwood forest in Butano State Park. It’s one of the three California state parks where you can have a tree named after you. Sundry Photography via iStock/Getty Images ...

After the once-secret location of a famed grove of ancient redwoods in Northern California was made public, visitors flocking to see the towering trees caused significant damage looking for the ...

1: James Irvine-Farn Canyon-Miners Ridge Loop. The best redwood hike in the world isn't all about big trees. Sure, there is a richer assortment of old-growth monsters on this trek through Prairie ...

A famed and ancient grove of redwood trees in Northern California that was damaged by an influx of visitors has reopened to the public with a new 1,300-foot-long elevated boardwalk. When word got ...

Late last fall, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection approved a contentious 224-acre logging plan submitted by Redwood Empire Sawmill to cut down about one-third of the trees ...

This reference does not mention the area of the location but was later documented to be in the "North Grove" of the Calaveras Big Tree California State Forest in the spring of 1852 by Augustus Dowd.

Sonoma County partnered with a Redwood conservation group to purchase 394-acres of Russian River Redwood forest, including one of the tallest and oldest trees in California, the Clar Tree.

In some of California’s most remote forests, a quiet tradition has been unfolding for more than a century. Though for redwood trees, some of which predate the Roman Empire, a century may be just ...