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Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of San Francisco, and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a port for lumber and other goods.
Redwood Shores is a waterfront community in Redwood City, California, along the western shore of San Francisco Bay on the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County.Redwood Shores is the home of several major technology companies, including Oracle Corporation (which relocated its headquarters in 2020), Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Zuora, Qualys, Crystal Dynamics and Shutterfly.
Marine World/Africa USA was an animal theme park located in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, California. [1] The park was named Marine World when it first opened in 1968, before merging with a land-animal park called Africa USA in 1972. In 1986, the park relocated to Vallejo, California, and is now known as Six Flags Discovery Kingdom .
SR 254 and coast redwoods, Humboldt Redwoods State Park. The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in northern California, United States, running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is named after the coastal redwoods that tower over the route. The road is a former alignment of U.S. Route 101, and continues to be maintained as a state ...
The Grove of Titans is a redwood grove in Del Norte County, Northern California, with several massive coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens) trees, some of the largest known redwoods in terms of wood volume. The largest coastal redwood tree in the grove by volume is the single-stem Del Norte Titan. [1] The Lost Monarch is comparably large, but a ...
77000339 [1] Added to NRHP. November 7, 1977. ( 1977-11-07Tmdy) The Redwood City Historic Commercial Buildings is an historic district in Redwood City, California that comprises four buildings constructed from 1859-1912. These buildings include the Pioneer Store, the Bank of San Mateo County building, the Sequoia Hotel, and the Alhambra Theater.
Hyperion is a coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens) in California that is the world's tallest known living tree, measuring 115.92 m (380.3 ft). [4] Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. [5] The tree was verified as standing 115.55 m (379.1 ft) tall by Stephen Sillett.
Redwood National Park is directly managed by the NPS from its office in Crescent City, California. [76] The three state parks are overseen by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. [77] The park management coordinates with tribal leaders, as the parks contain land and village sites belonging to groups including the Yurok and Tolowa.