This is a walk through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park one of the last reserves of old growth redwoods. I crawled through a burnt out stump called a goose pen. The name comes from settlers who would herd migrating geese in there for holding.

Over 95% of redwood trees in Northern California were logged early in the 20th century. This park accounts for about 45% of the remaining old growth trees many of which are 1,000 years old and a select group over 2,000 years old and 300 feet tall--twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

Roosevelt Elk are frequent visitors to the park. At the beach side of the park you can see gray whales and killer whales in their natural habitat just off shore during migration season. It is much more exciting than any visit to Sea World.

The park is located about 260 miles north on the California coast.

Latitude/Longitude: 41.4072 / -124.0192