You can find ‘Yoga in the Redwoods’ at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton teaching in the Iyengar Yoga tradition

Pilot program features outdoor classes at Big Basin, Henry Cowell

Through one of the activities in the newly launched Redwood Rx program, participants learn to write in partnership with nature. The activity is one in a series running through October that are focused on nature-based health and wellness. (Credit: Mountain Parks Foundation)

Mountain Parks Foundation announces the launch of Redwood Rx, which provides nature-based guided programs at Henry Cowell, Fall Creek, and Big Basin Redwoods State Parks.

Limited public access to the fire-scarred park returns almost two years after CZU Fire

In 2020, a blaze consumed Big Basin Redwoods State Park, incinerating cabins, blackening ancient trees, and imperiling endangered murrelets. Staff now want to reimagine the park to better ensure the seabird’s future.

By Sarah Gilman
Reporter, Audubon Magazine
Summer 2022

The New York Times published a travel article where they list the 52 places across the globe where travelers can be "part of the solution" and Santa Cruz County made the list.

Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Memorial Day Weekend, May 29 and 30.

More than eight months after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire swept through Big Basin, signs of renewal can be seen.

BIG BASIN — The Douglas fir came crashing down just a couple dozen feet from the famous “Mother of the Forest” tree Friday, and the impact shook the earth, blowing another smoldering hot spot into live flames. The fire-damaged fir was taken down with chainsaws in a controlled fall, to prevent it from toppling on its own and damaging one of the old-growth giants still standing a stone’s throw away…

Mercury News

History

Ambrose Bierce was a close friend of Josephine Clifford McCrackin, both popular writers and journalists. Bierce came to visit her Loma Prieta home on the weekend of Oct. 7 and 8,1899, bringing his 23-year-old protegee, poet Herman Scheffauer. They stayed at Hotel Bohemia, in the hamlet of Burrell, on Loma Prieta Avenue and Summit Road.

Santa Cruz Sentinel
By ROSS ERIC GIBSON

The Garden of Eden, a wilderness area within Henry Cowell, is currently closed for public safety reasons. All ingress and egress to the Garden of Eden, the Ox Parking Lot, and Ox Mill Fire Road are closed to public use, access, recreation, and parking until further notice.

Photo © CA State Parks

FELTON, Calif.— Mountain Parks Foundation’s (MPF) Nature Store at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park reopens Monday, June 1! The Nature Store will be open daily from 11am to 3pm in June.

Santa Cruz State Parks manager of Interpretation and Education, Elizabeth Hammack, describes details of plans for the museum's renovation and exhibit design.

According to this SVT article, engaging visitors in a sensory exploration of nature will inspire them to care for California's oldest state park, the same way the nation's first conservationists did in 1902.

This segment features Mountain Parks Foundation’s very own Brenda Holmes and board member, Larry Tierney, as they discuss plans for this exciting project.