{"id":338,"date":"2009-09-12T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14886.com\/archestozion\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:43:35","slug":"redwood-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Redwood National Park"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\t\t
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This is an awe inspiring area, with trees that tower over 350 feet (the tallest species on earth)! You can’t really even see the top when standing below one of these things! One interesting thing about this place is that it’s called Redwood National and State Parks (the only such joint management I know of) because the federal government manages around half of the area and California manages the other half. The 2 parks are intermixed, as you can tell when you look at the official park map – NPS portions are dark green and state portions are a lighter green. But when you’re in the parks, there’s little to no distinction, so that’s why I’m hard pressed to remember which parts exactly I went to. Was the visitors center in the national park? (yes). Were the trails outside the park in the national park? (no!). \u00a0Did we camp in a state or national campground (not sure, but it was pricy). The bottom line is that this entire area is not to be missed. It’s pretty close to the major coastal California Cities, and if you are traveling north on the Pacific Coast Highway (Calif. rte 101), that road becomes the park road and goes smack dab through the middle of the park. Here, I got to do something I had read about in a Babar book when I was a kid, namely drive my car through a tree with a tunnel carved out in the middle. Not part of the national park, but certainly the same kind of tree. \u00a0This area also has a lot of coastal access, but\u00a0beware\u00a0– the \u00a0tides are\u00a0treacherous\u00a0around here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My favorite things to do here<\/strong><\/p>\n