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Tall Trees Access Road and the Skunk Cabbage Trail Road are CLOSED to vehicles.
Effective June 3, 2013, these closures are necessary due to key vacancies in park staffing, including heavy equipment operators required to grade and maintain these roads. Access to the Tall Trees Grove is still available via 8 mile hike. More »
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Miners Ridge and Ossagon backcountry camps closed indefinitely.
Backpacker sites avail. during summer only at Gold Bluffs Beach Campground (8 sites avail.; free permit req'd; $5 fee paid on site) and year-round at Elk Prairie Campground (hiker/biker sites avail., first-come, first-served; $5 fee paid on site). More »
Redwood National and State Parks: This week's National Park Getaway
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Contact: Candace L. Tinkler, 707-465-7304 Contact: Kat Kirby, 202-208-6843 High up in the canopy of ancient redwood forest, one of the world's rarest seabirds, the marbled murrelet, shares its ethereal home with an entire ecosystem of plants and wildlife thriving hundreds of feet above ground. This week's National Park Getaway travels to California's northwest coast to soak in this splendor of towering trees and majestic overloooks. Redwood National and State Parks preserve the largest remaining contiguous section of ancient coast redwood forest, including some of the world's tallest and oldest trees. The park's primeval forests, prairies, rivers, coastline, and woodlands are cooperatively managed by the National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation. The human footprint in this park dates back more than 4,500 years. The Tolowa, Yurok, Chilula, and Hupa peoples continue to rely on the park for spiritual, cultural, physical, and economic sustenance. The park's landscape holds remnants of its past logging, ranching, fishing and military history. At Redwood, you can hike among the giants, relax in fields of wildflowers and explore the beaches of the Pacific coast. You'll get a clear view by reading this week's National Park Getaway article at www.nps.gov/getaways. This News Release can also be viewed, downloaded, and/or printed in PDF format (323 KB). |
Did You Know?
You can travel by car to Gold Bluffs Beach to hike along a meandering stream through a hidden canyon with 30-foot walls covered by several species of ferns. Follow steps up to James Irvine Trail to a prairie that was once a small mining town above Fern Canyon.