Per a decade-long tradition in the East Bay, the regional park district is cheekily renaming the day after Thanksgiving ...

Discover California’s secret state parks, hidden coasts, wild deserts, and towering redwoods perfect for crowd-free ...

With trees that have been in place for milennia, and a river running through it, this park offers fishing, camping, and ...

Ralph Sidney Smith, the popular young editor of the Redwood City Times and Gazette, wanted to protect the trees in the Santa ...

Jedediah Smith Redwoods Campground provides the opportunity to camp among the giant coast redwoods. You can look up and ...

History and nature come together at Limekiln State Park. The name comes from the old lime kilns still standing in the forest. These huge metal structures look like something from a science fiction ...

David Rubin, retired geologist and board chair of the Rural Bonny Doon Association, takes issue with Mickey Rush’s Lookout op-ed urging Santa Cruz County to immediately open damaged trails for ...

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end. Especially when that dead end is surrounded by crashing surf on empty beaches, dramatic cliffs and lonely trails through forests thick with ...

Whether you want actual snow or not, here are expert tips to make your cold-weather camping trip memorable — plus five great ...

FELTON — On Saturday, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park held the Central Coast Good Fire Fair. The event featured a prescribed burn demonstration, a guided fire ecology walk through the redwood grove ...

More than 300 miles north of San Francisco, near the town of Hiouchi, just south of the Oregon border, a trailhead turnoff leads to the Mill Creek Trail and the famed Grove of Titans — home to some of ...