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Sam McDonald Park, located between La Honda and Loma Mar in San Mateo County, California, United States, is operated by the San Mateo County Department of Parks. The park is 867 acres (3.51 km 2 ) of redwood forest, mixed woods and open meadows.
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2), state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site in the hills of Oakland, California, adjoining the western boundary of Redwood Regional Park.
Discovered in Redwood National Park in 2006 in an unpublished location, [d] the tallest living tree is the coast redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens) named Hyperion, [85] at 380 feet (120 m). It is followed by Helios at 377 feet (115 m), and Icarus at 371 feet (113 m), both also in Redwood National Park. [86]
The state park, California's oldest, is also the largest stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco. It was 97% burned in 2020, when the CZU Lightning Complex fire erupted in the Santa ...
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park: State park Santa Cruz: 18,050 7,300 1902 Established as California's first state park, to preserve coast redwoods on Waddell Creek. [27] Bodie State Historic Park: State historic park Mono: 1,016 411 1962 Preserves the ghost town of Bodie, whose gold-mining heyday ran from 1877 to 1881, and is now a National ...
The other parks include the Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, and Redwood National Park. The 10,430-acre (4,220 ha) park was established in 1929 [ 2 ] and designated part of the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve in 1983.
According to the National Park Service, "In 1929, Clara W. Stout, widow of lumberman Frank D. Stout, donated this tract of old-growth redwood forest to Save the Redwoods League."