Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Orick CA

Category & Type :

Recreation

Location :

Orick CA

Information about Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park...

One of the best locations in all of California, to see and experience the redwoods up close and personal, is at the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Carved out of the coastal redwood region in the early 1920’s by a group of concerned California citizens, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park has been a magnet for educationally-minded researchers, who desire and have a passion for the giant coastal redwoods, which only live here. If many are put aside by the talk of the cultural redwoods being alive, then this is a great opportunity to learn something about the world’s largest living tree. These are living organisms that reach upwards to heights of 350 or 400 feet!

This is what makes northern California such a wonderful family vacation spot, not just the environment of stunning beauty of the place, but also the chance to educate oneself and one’s children with the open-mindedness, that only California brings out in each and every visitor that touches this beautiful land. These wonderful old-growth forest of coastal redwood trees that line the interior of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, have been therefore centuries. Any living organism that has been alive for over 100 years is magnificently impressive to all of us, yet a living organism that has been alive for a couple centuries is simply mind blowing!

Prairie Creek offers hiking, wildlife viewing, and a natural-world, educational experience, beach combing, and picnicking, for every family that comes to visit this beautiful place. Prairie Creek is managed by the National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation, which includes, Jedediah Smith and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks, just to name a few of the State Parks, within this locality.

Some other campgrounds that are inside Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park include Gold Bluffs Beach, Elk Prairie, the Rhododendron Trail, and many other fascinating and exciting encounters, that are just waiting to be found and discovered, by a trip to Prairie Creek SP! If it’s time to take a break and get away from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco and Sacramento, then it is time to pack up the old ‘battle wagon’ and head north until paradise is found, that would be Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is an excellent family vacation location and one that won’t break the bank as well. The reasons for this are simple, as northern California is only a few hours drive from almost any city in the State of California or a few of the other Western states as well. Within no time an individual family from Phoenix can be in the cultural redwoods location within 3 to 4 hours. That’s huge, when we as a country, have just suffered through one of the worst economies in any of our lives, and money is still extremely tight. As 2010 rolls in, there will be more money available, hopefully, so that we all can enjoy the beautiful giant trees of northern California, like we want to.