California Official Visitor's Guide 2009 - (Page 16) discover » escape » redwoods I north coast Sleep beneath the world’s tallest trees 16 visitcalifornia.com TAI POWER SEEFF (7) camping n California’s northwest corner, the world’s tallest trees preside over a wild and stunningly beautiful landscape. Rough and ruddy coast redwoods stand impossibly straight in the North Coast’s fern-choked canyons and on ridgetops, inspiring generations of hikers to their own soaring thoughts. The trees grow only along a fog-draped strip from the California-Oregon border south to Big Sur. But the state’s expansive northern parks are the best places to get an appropriately jaw-dropping look at forests of Sequoia sempervirens, made even more magical with their understory of huckleberry and rhododendron and their proximity to the Pacific. From Eureka to Crescent City, you’ll find almost half of the state’s remaining old-growth forests in parks and preserves. The 71,715-acre Redwood National Park is the southern anchor of this jointly managed constellation of parks; running south-to-north are Prairie Creek Redwoods, Del Norte Coast Redwood, and Jedediah Smith Redwood State Parks (the three state parks together come to 60,268 acres). All LEFT Warm afternoon sun lights offer fabulous choices the way in Prairie for pitching a tent Creek Redwoods and taking a hike. State Park. http://www.visitcalifornia.com
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