Avenue of the Giants

Today, we took a 32-mile drive on a road that parallels Hwy 101 following an old stagecoach road.  As the old mill towns began to fade and traffic increased, the state decided to preserve an old section of the road running directly through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is called the Avenue of the Giants. There are numbered stops along the way 1-8.

This is looking up through our sun rood.  It is hard to give you an idea of the grandeur of these trees.

This is one of the fallen giants.  You can kind of see how wide they are.  Some of these trees are 300 to 500 years old.

You can compare their size to our car and my height which is 5'7".

The natural crown jewel of the county is Humboldt Redwoods State Park.  This was a definitive spot to see the magnificence of California's famous coastal redwoods.  In the early part of the last century there was nationwide effort to save what remained of the old growth redwoods on California's North Coast.  Humboldt Redwoods State Park was founded in 1921.  The Humboldt Redwoods is California's third largest state park, occupying 53,00 acres, including 17,000 acres of pristine old growth redwoods.