Next, head to Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park for the Fern Canyon, which is about 30 minutes away. This gorgeous canyon has walls covered in lush, green ferns. It’s a short, easy hike suitable ...

In one of the largest deals to protect open space in the Bay Area over the past decade, an environmental group is purchasing ...

"No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree," the novelist John Steinbeck once wrote. "The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe ..