Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Five years after the CZU Lightning Complex fires, Big Basin Redwoods State Park has seen regrowth and a reimagining. Click here to read more. The blaze, ...

Big Basin, the old-growth redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains that was established as the first state park in 1902, is expanding by 153 acres following the purchase of a new piece of forest ...

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 ...

A 153-acre site in the Santa Cruz Mountains that gained national notoriety as an unauthorized junk yard is now part of one of California’s most storied state parks. The wooded landscape, located near ...

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 visitor center ...

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 ...

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 ...

California’s oldest state park has expanded, as part of a restorative effort after a 2020 fire ravaged the park, state park officials say. California State Parks and Sempervirens Fund — the state’s ...