Posted at Mercurynews.com: The Old Tree is just a dot on the map of Portola Redwoods State Park – until you stand before its mind-boggling bulk and try to take it all in. It’s 297 feet tall, 12 feet across,…
Portola Redwoods State Park
Yet another Portola Redwoods State Park hike
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
It can’t be an epic adventure every week (and given my proclivities for safe, easily accessible nearby trails, my adventurers aren’t all that adventurous anyway). This week it was a few hours at Portola Redwoods State Park with Mike Wimble…
Latest hike: Portola Redwoods State Park
by tmangan • July 8, 2007 • 2 Comments
Next scouting mission for my Mercury News “Hikes” column: Portola Redwoods State Park. Portola’s another of those “second-growth” redwood forests that sprang up after the previous redwood forest got clear-cut. The park map shows the Old Tree Trail about a…
Another trip to the big trees
by tmangan • May 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Six miles into Portola Redwoods State Park is the Valley That Loggers Forgot. The park is in a section of the Santa Cruz Mountains where enterprising, forward-looking entrepreneurs clear-cut acre after acre to answer the Bay Area’s growing demand to…