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.

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.

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.

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.

Which is better: Sequoia or Redwood National Park? “They're basically siblings, and so it's like comparing your kids,” Taylor said. “You love them both for slightly different reasons.” ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The goal of “Free Second Saturdays at Redwood State Parks” is to reconnect the people of California with these natural legacies, to inspire visitors with the beauty and power of the redwoods ...