What is the closest city to Redwood National Park? “Eureka, California, is often what we cite as our close kind of metropolitan area,” Taylor said. “It has a regional airport and all the ...

According to the National Park Service, "In 1929, Clara W. Stout, widow of lumberman Frank D. Stout, donated this tract of old-growth redwood forest to Save the Redwoods League." ...

The park superintendent said that was the most intense bloom he had seen in the 17 years he worked there, and that it was likely a result of the lake’s low level, which exposed fertile soil.

See 300-foot-tall redwoods, banana slugs, and more in this dreamlike landscape. It's our 62 Parks Traveler's 16th stop on her journey to visit every U.S. national park in a year.

The tree was, well, just another redwood. A super tall, burn-scarred, leafy, branchy redwood, surrounded by others very much like it. I clambered up to the base, which was about 15 feet across.