The fire swept through 97% of Big Basin State Redwood Park's 18,000 acres. With historic structures now gone, the public is being asked to help with the rebuilding process.

In a nutshell: Currently a short hike in Jed Smith Redwood State Park to the Grove of the Titans. By next summer, the trail will be longer and include much of Mill Creek Trail.

A historic California redwood park will soon welcome visitors, two years after devastating fire A wildfire burned roughly 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in August 2020.

California's oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, has been damaged by the fires, which have charred hundreds of massive ancient coast redwoods – some more than 1,000 years old.

BOULDER CREEK - AUGUST 20: The Big Basin Redwoods State Park Headquarters & Visitor Center is burned to the ground during a blaze in Boulder Creek, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020.

It’s hard to go wrong in Redwood National and State Parks, where magnificent stands of redwoods tower above a sea of ferns. Herds of Roosevelt elk do their thing in the meadows.

The trail is named for Boy Scout Tree, a redwood where two trees have joined in one massive, 40-foot diameter trunk. The tree splits off as it rises, as though giving the two-finger Boy Scout salute.

The park’s administrative base of operations also will be relocated out to Saddle Mountain, a 17-acre State Parks-owned property near the corner of Big Basin Highway and Little Basin Way.

California State Parks is conducting prescribed burns in Big Basin Redwood State parks until May 9, which is leading to a noticeable smell of smoke on campus. WHAT TO DO: If you are affected by ...

LAGUNITAS (CBS SF) -- Investigators were trying to determine a cause Friday of a fire deep within Samuel P. Taylor State Park that destroyed the Pioneer Tree, an iconic old-growth Redwood.