We’ve outlined 20 distinct neighborhoods, each with its own character and unique attributes. Let The Gazette’s experts be your guide. Except for their size - one is 41 feet in circumference and most ...

The fossil beds' biggest attraction is a petrified stump that once supported a 200-foot-high redwood tree. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

The largest petrified tree in the world is a 105-foot-long redwood protruding from a mountainside in Sonoma County. The Petrified Forest, located between Santa Rosa and Calistoga, has the only ...

From the covered structures protecting the petrified Redwood stumps, begin hiking the Sawmill Loop southward through Ponderosa Pine woodland. (Joe LaFleur) When snowpack sustains overall depths of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FLORISSANT — California’s towering sequoias — those massive redwoods whose lumber graces my backyard deck — are enormous plants. They grow nearly as tall as ...

There is a ghostly redwood forest in Yellowstone National Park. The trees are identical to the massive pines that grow 200 to 300 feet tall in California. The difference is that the Yellowstone ...