You will stand among giant redwoods in Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve, an underrated forest in Northern California.

Located in Northern California ... redwoods. The trail has over 950 feet of elevation gain, with most of it near the start of the trail. The trail peaks and then descends through the forest ...

The company sold the adjacent 3,400 acres of redwood forest in 2005, a property called Willow Creek, to the California Department of Parks and Recreation. It was added to Sonoma Coast State Park.

Conservation groups today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the California Department of Forestry and Fire ... contains some of the last remaining mature floodplain redwood forest in the area.