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Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz.The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped depression.
The Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail is a 29.5-mile (47.5 km) hiking trail that descends from the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California to the Pacific Ocean, passing through Castle Rock State Park and Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Big Basin is California's oldest state park.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is open 8:30 a.m. to sunset daily. Parking is $10 without a reservation , $8 with one. Weekend visitors are urged to reserve parking at least a day ahead.
Looking north from Coast Highway 1 bridge at Waddell Creek estuary The Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail passing over West Waddell Creek 1954 Map of Waddell Creek, Scott Creek and San Lorenzo River. Waddell Creek is the name given to both the creek and the watershed that run through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County, California. [5]
Big Basin Redwoods State Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, is the oldest state-run park, founded in 1902. California's first state park was the Yosemite Grant, which today constitutes part of Yosemite National Park.
State Route 236 (SR 236) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.It is an approximately 18-mile (29 km) C-shaped loop route of State Route 9 in the Santa Cruz Mountains that serves Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
[1] [2] Redwoods Rising was founded in April 2018 at an event in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Redwood National and State Parks as 120,000 acres (49,000 ha) of public lands, 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) of this land were commercially logged in the past. [3] About 96 percent of the world's old-growth coast redwood forest has been logged.
The Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve is a public open space preserve in Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.The preserve is located along both sides of Bear Creek Road, west of State Route 17 and Lexington Reservoir, and mostly north and east of the Skyline Boulevard and Summit Road sections of State Route 35.