Workers used reclaimed wood to create benches, stairs, and fences to help people trek the Ben Johnson trail safely ...

Take a journey through one of California’s most stunning landscapes on the James Irvine Trail in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. This 4.5-mile one-way trail (9 miles round trip) starts behind the ...

Carbon Canyon Regional Park’s Redwood Grove Trail in Yorba Linda offers visitors a mind-bending ecological anomaly – a thriving coastal redwood forest in Southern California, where such trees have no ...

Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods ...

If the Bay Area falls under another weeks-long “heat dome” like last summer, your best chance for relief is to head to the ...

Will Fourt, a senior planner with California State Parks in the Santa Cruz District, stands on a bridge on the Skyline to the Sea Trail that was rehabilitated twice in Big Basin Redwoods State ...

If you’re looking to avoid the crowds, you might want to consider visiting one of the thousands of state parks across the ...

The Golden State is blessed with the tallest tree on earth, the biggest tree in terms of mass on the planet that is also ...

Fern Canyon in Orick, California isn’t just another pretty spot in a state already overflowing with natural beauty – it’s a mesmerizing corridor where time itself seems suspended between emerald walls ...

The region’s extraordinary diversity of building styles includes missions, Victorians and the modernist office towers and ...

But for his latest book, “Spark,” he drew inspiration from one of his family’s most harrowing experiences — being forced to ...

The hiking club John Muir started with some friends has grown into one of the most influential environmental organizations in ...