Redwood National Park: History, Highlights, and One- to Three-Day Adventures

Redwood National Park is shared with three state parks along 50 miles of highway, with no single entrance and reservations for its best-known places. Old-growth giants, a fern-walled canyon, wild beaches, and grazing elk make it worth the planning. This guide shows you how to see it in one, two, or three days at the pace you choose, with the reservations, tides, and seasonal footbridges worked out for you.

What's inside

• Nine ready-made itineraries: one, two, and three days, each at easy, moderate, and strenuous effort, with timing, distances, driving, meals and water, and a backup plan for storms, high water, tides, or a missing reservation
• The parks' history, from the Tolowa, Yurok, and Chilula homelands through the logging era and the fight to save the redwoods to the return of the California condor
• Sightseeing highlights from Lady Bird Johnson Grove and Tall Trees to Prairie Creek, Fern Canyon, the Klamath coast, Howland Hill Road, and Stout Grove
• A wildlife chapter profiling 14 commonly seen animals, from Roosevelt elk and harbor seals to varied thrushes and banana slugs, each with a photograph and notes on where and when to look
• Trip planning for fees and reservations, the state-run campgrounds and nearby towns, weather, ocean and elk safety, accessibility, and pets
• 33 photographs and 5 orientation maps

What you'll receive

• EPUB ebook (Redwood_National_Park_Brian_D_Russ.epub, about 13 MB) for Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and most e-reader apps. Kindle readers can send it to their library with Amazon's Send to Kindle.
• PDF (Redwood_National_Park_Brian_D_Russ.pdf, 97 pages including the cover, about 25 MB) for any computer, tablet, or phone, and for printing the pages you want to carry. It opens on the illustrated cover.

Your download link arrives by email right after purchase.

Edition

First illustrated edition, October 2026. Research completed October 17, 2026. Trails, footbridges, and reservation rules change with the seasons, so check the parks' current conditions before you travel.

Bring a rain jacket and a tide table.

This is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service.