What is so special about Redwood National Park?

Most people know Redwood as home to the tallest trees on Earth. But the Parks also protect vast prairies, oak woodlands, wild rivers, and 40 miles of rugged coastline. People have lived in this verdant landscape since time immemorial.



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Redwood National Park Facts
  • California Experienced A “Logging Boom” As Redwood Became The Wood Of Choice.
  • A League Was Established To Save The Redwoods.
  • The Tallest Redwood Tree Is Six Stories Taller Than The Statue Of Liberty.


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Redwoods are so huge, a single tree itself can be habitat for an incredible number of species. When redwoods shed their foliage, much of it accumulates in the branches and decomposes to become soil, or canopy soil, where other species of plant seeds and fungi spores can sprout.

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Redwood National Park is home to the world's tallest trees and old-growth redwood forests. Many of the trees in the forest of over 300 feet tall and 2,000 years old. The redwoods alone are enough to make this park worth visiting.

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California's North Coast provides the only such environment in the world. A combination of longitude, climate, and elevation limits the redwoods' range to a few hundred coastal miles. The cool, moist air created by the Pacific Ocean keeps the trees continually damp, even during summer droughts.

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Giant Redwoods As its nickname suggests, giant or coastal redwoods thrive in the moist, humid climate of the Northern California coast, where marine fog delivers precise conditions necessary for its growth. The fog adds moisture to the soil and helps trap it there by lowering the rate of evaporation.

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List Of Redwood National Park Facts
  • Indigenous Peoples Were The Earliest Inhabitants Of Redwood National Park.
  • A Cockroach May Have Been Responsible For The First Foreigner Seeing The Magnificent Redwoods.
  • Spanish Explorers Are The First Documented Foreigners To Visit The California Redwoods.


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Wildlife of the Redwood Parks Visitors to Redwood National and State Parks have a great chance of seeing California sea lions, giant green sea anemone, bald eagles, Roosevelt elk, salamanders, and of course, a banana slug. The ambitious visitor (and often just lucky) may see many of these all in one day.

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The coast redwood and Douglas-fir forests, and oak woodlands of Redwood National Park are home to many black bears {Ursus americanus). The black bear is the most common species of bear in North America, and is the only one found in California since the grizzly bear (U. horribilis) was extermi- nated in the 1920s.

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Visitors to Redwood National and State Parks have a great chance of seeing California sea lions, giant green sea anemone, bald eagles, Roosevelt elk, salamanders, and of course, a banana slug. The ambitious visitor (and often just lucky) may see many of these all in one day.

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North Coast, Humboldt County, California Just south, this California coastal area is often called Redwood Country thanks to its thriving forests. The area is home to 45 percent of the remaining old-growth redwoods in California, and Redwood National and State Parks shelters some of the tallest trees on Earth.

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Muir Snag is believed to be the oldest redwood tree in the world. Muir Snag is estimated to be more than 3,500 years old, but is no longer living. Although the tree is dead, it is still standing in the Converse Basin of the Giant Sequoia National Monument in Sierra Nevada, California.

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All the redwood parks can be visited year-round. Spring is the best time overall, especially from April through June. The woods are at their most lush and green, until Memorial Day the parks aren't too crowded, and all the trails and roads are usually open.

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While you could easily spend multiple days in the Redwoods, you can also get a good feel for all the Redwoods have to offer in one adventure-filled day! If you only have one day, make the most of it and see the variety available in this National Park.

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