California’s giant redwood trees are some of the tallest and most impressive trees on the planet. Standing beneath them can feel like looking up at massive wooden skyscrapers. Even more incredible, in ...

You will stand among giant redwoods in Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve, an underrated forest in Northern California.

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods. The living crown (this one atop the General Sherman, at center) was once a distant mystery.