Where to Find the Giant Redwoods of Oregon (2024)

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Where can you see giant redwood trees in Oregon? ›

The Oregon Redwoods Trail is an interpretive trail located along Peavine Ridge in the Winchuck River drainage, and provides a unique barrier-free, day-use hiking/wheelchair opportunity through a grove of majestic old-growth redwood trees.

Currently, the range of the giant sequoia is limited to the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. The coast redwood's range is just along the central/northern California coast and the southwest Oregon coast.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks offer some of the best spots to see the behemoths, including the General Sherman tree. Stand below it or take a free park shuttle in the summer to see its size from a distance.

The distance between Portland and Redwood National Park is 371 miles. The road distance is 364.6 miles.

Where is Redwood National Park? Redwood National Park is located in Northwestern California along the California-Oregon border. The closest city to the Redwoods area is Crescent City which I highly recommend making your home base unless you will be camping or using a camper van.

Massive, ancient giant sequoias live in three groves in Yosemite National Park. The most easily accessible of these (spring through fall) is the Mariposa Grove near the park's South Entrance, off of the Wawona Road (Highway 41). Two smaller—and less visited—groves are the Tuolumne and Merced Groves near Crane Flat.

While most people stop at the Redwoods National and State Parks in northern California, the trees continue growing across the border, planting their roots into the forests of southwest Oregon. Admittedly, the trees in Oregon are much smaller and far less impressive than the famous stands in California.

Only on the Northern California coast

EUREKA, Calif. -- Not one but three giant redwoods offer motorists the opportunity to steer their wheels through a living tree. All are right off US Highway 101, known as the Redwood Highway, within an hour or so drive of the historic seaport of Eureka.

Sequoias and giant redwoods are often referred to interchangeably, though they are two very different, though equally remarkable, species of tree. Both naturally occurring only in California, these two species share a distinctive cinnamon-colored bark and the proclivity for growing to overwhelming heights.

This famed road, easily the most scenic drive among the redwoods, has been called the finest forest drive in the world. Lined by titan trees, the 31-mile Avenue parallels Highway 101 and offers an excellent alternate (and slower) route through southern Humboldt County.

How can I see redwoods by car? ›

If you want to see redwoods in their unaltered state, drive a few miles north of Leggett to Smithe Redwoods Natural Reserve, where massive trees grow alongside the Eel River, or head 30 miles north to the southern end of the Avenue of the Giants driving route, then steer your way through cathedral-like groves so tall ...

There are no entrance fees to drive the scenic roads or highways in our three state parks and national park. Some day-use areas have fees; these accept interagency and CA state park passes.

Some of the largest Douglas firs and Western Hemlocks in the Oregon Coast Range can be found in the Bureau of Land Management's Valley of the Giants. Many of these trees are twenty feet in circumference, 200 feet tall, and 400 to 450 years old.

The largest redwood in the world lives in Sequoia National Park, California.

While you could easily spend multiple days in the Redwoods, you can also get a good feel for all the Redwoods have to offer in one adventure-filled day! If you only have one day, make the most of it and see the variety available in this National Park.

Some of the largest Douglas firs and Western Hemlocks in the Oregon Coast Range can be found in the Bureau of Land Management's Valley of the Giants. Many of these trees are twenty feet in circumference, 200 feet tall, and 400 to 450 years old.

Giant sequoia and coast redwood trees are often found in California. They can also be found growing in Portland's urban forest. Native to California, giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are both large-form conifers also easily found in Portland's urban forest.

If you know where to look, redwoods can be found across Washington and Oregon. In Seattle, coast redwoods and giant sequoias — another species commonly called redwoods — can be found facing Husky Stadium, in Laurelhurst Park, in the Washington Park Arboretum and even in the front lawn of a West Seattle home.