Redwood National and State Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

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More Than Redwoods

Stand at the base of a coast redwood and the huckleberry bushes tower over you. Watch statuesque Roosevelt elk grazing in the prairies. Observe the tail of a female Chinook salmon heave skyward as she makes a nest for her eggs. Whether a morning or night person, you can hear the endangered marbled murrelets' keer across the treetops as they fly from sea to mossy nest.
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Places To Go

Camping: Redwood National and State Parks offer four developed campgrounds, three in the redwood forest and one on the ocean. Tidbits to know: no trailer hook-ups exist; there is a charge for each extra vehicle per site; and day use fees are charged.

All campgrounds are California state park campgrounds operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.

		Volunteer-in-Parks Volunteer amidst the tallest trees on earth and make a difference! Join the redwood team as a Volunteer-In-Park. Many opportunities await you: staff park visitor centers, teach children, build and maintain trails, host campgrounds, participate in field studies on plants or animals, conduct scientific library, research organize and maintain park library organize, and maintain park photo inventory, or conduct weed/invasive species control.

Endangered

The Marbled Murrelet: From Forest’s Edge to the Edge of Extinction.

Sheltered in a soft nest of moss and ferns, a marbled murrelet chick waits silently atop a massive redwood branch high above the forest floor. Its parents spend their day at sea, diving for small fish, returning at dusk to feed their solitary offspring. Like the fog that shrouds the forest, a murrelet’s life is connected to both forest and sea.
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Write to

Redwood National and State Parks
1111 Second Street
Crescent City, California 95531

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Phone

Visitor Information
(707) 464-6101

Fax

(707) 464-1812

Climate

The redwoods thrive in a temperate ecosystem and require lots of precipitation. The climate is 40 - 60 degrees year round along the wild redwood coastline.
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