Napa is just over an hour from San Francisco, and although not strictly on the way to Yosemite, it makes an excellent detour ...

Welcome to Ferndale, California – the antidote to your modern stress disorder and possibly the most relaxing small town you’ll ever have the pleasure of getting lost in.

The Boy Scout Tree Trail is a moderate 2.8-mile (4.5 km) hike in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, offering a deep dive into the old-growth redwood ecosystem. Enter the trail from Howland Hill Road ...

Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park in Sonoma County just got four times bigger. The county acquired a parcel of over 1,500 ...

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...