Will Fourt, a senior planner with California State Parks in the Santa Cruz District, stands on a bridge on the Skyline to the Sea Trail that was rehabilitated twice in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in ...

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. -- When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and ...

BOULDER CREEK — California’s oldest state park — Big Basin Redwoods — thrived for 118 years, but it took less than 24 hours for almost all of the 18,000-acre property to go up in smoke. In the early ...

According to CAL FIRE CZU San Mateo‑Santa Cruz Unit, Big Basin is listed for a full closure, Castle Rock is closed, including its backcountry trail camps, and New Brighton is limited to day‑use only ...

Four years ago, a raging wildfire burned through California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, charring 97% of the landscape and destroying every building and campsite, leaving ruins where ...

• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, near Santa Cruz, is recovering after fire scorched almost the entire park in 2020. • Of 115 miles of trails and fire roads in the park, 31.5 are open. More are to ...

Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitors center ...

Big Basin Redwoods is the oldest state park in California. It’s home to some of the oldest trees on the planet - ancient coastal redwoods - and it was nearly destroyed by the CZU Lightning Complex ...

Big Basin wants to be, as Spohrer puts it, “a model in the future of how you can manage old-growth redwood in the face of a changing climate.” But officials want to rebuild the park in other ways — ...