• Image of coast redwood forest along Cal-Barrel Road

    Redwood

    National and State Parks California

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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 »

  • 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 »

Photo Gallery

  • Clintonia's deep pink trumpet-shaped flowers ripen into dark blue berries by July.
    Wildflowers
    18 Photos
  • Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and sword ferns.
    Coast Redwoods
    32 Photos
  • bull elk grazing on meadow
    Roosevelt Elk
    6 Photos
  • Spotted owl sitting in a redwood tree.
    Birds
    17 Photos
  • Fifth grade students on a coastal education program at Crescent Beach.
    Beaches & Coastline
    22 Photos
  • Hidden Beach covered by fog
    Scenics
    35 Photos
  • Amanita muscaria
    Fungi
    10 Photos
  • Ochre sea stars submerged in a tide pool.
    Tidepools
    16 Photos
  • Pacific Sideband
    Slugs and Snails
    3 Photos

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

The Columbia Lily, also known as Tiger Lily, colors the road sides and forest edges with brilliant yellow-orange blossoms from May through August. The stem is two to three feet tall and has several whorls of long, narrow leaves.