It was wild driving through Redwood National Park seeing how massive these trees are. This has always been a bucket list item for me. Wishing Big E was here to see them. As a nice bonus I caught the sun setting on the way out of the park!
Established in 1968, Redwood National Park is located in northernmost coastal California, and is home to old-growth coast redwoods. These magnificent trees can live to be 2,000 years old and grow to over 300 feet tall. Spruce, hemlock, Douglas-fir, berry bushes, and sword ferns create a multiple-canopied understory.Redwoods are the tallest trees on earth reaching more than 350 feet high. Endangered marbled murrelets lay their eggs on the upper branches of redwoods. Creatures like the wandering salamander can live their entire life in a redwood canopy. There are 50 Redwood trees over 350 feet tall along the coast of the Pacific.The tallest, named Hyperion (located in a remote part of the forest), stands at 379.9 feet tall. That’s nearly 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. More easily accessible is the Stratosphere Giant, the 4th tallest tree in the world (370.5 feet), located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.The first Redwood trees pre-date humans, spiders, and flowers, first appearing over 240 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. In comparison, humans have been around for about 200,000 years. The oldest living Redwood is said to be nearly 2,500 years old. It would have been a seedling during the time of the Roman Empire.
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