AMAZING! I wish I could pick a better word to describe it. They truly are unbelievable. It is almost like you are star struck, because you've seen them in pictures, but then you are there in front of them and you just can't believe your eyes that they are really real (It's like the time we saw Michael Jackson at the Excalibur, but ten times better!). We debated where to go to see the trees, because I wanted to find a place that was kind of unknown to the general public, you know like a "secret place to see the trees", but couldn't find any so we decided to go drive down the Avenue of the Giants. OMG! It was so amazing (did I already say that). I can't imagine a better place to see the trees. It was so strange because you are just driving along the PCH and it just seems like it is lined with normal pine trees. Then, you see a sign to turn for the Avenue of the Giants (which is the old PCH) and you drive down onto this tiny little two-lane street and you realize that those normal-sized pine trees were the tops of these enormous monsters! Totally amazing! Along the Avenue there are the little touristy stops to see different trees. Here is one that had fallen that the kids could climb into. 
This was pretty cool, but the ones we found out in the forest that still had the roots attached were a lot more awe-inspiring. We just kept saying, "Can you imagine being here when this fell?" or "How loud do you think it would be?"
The boys are standing in the hole that this tree made when it fell. Can you see how huge the base is? We couldn't even get the whole thing in the frame! We found this part of the forest where you could park and go walk on this little trail, so you could really get out into the trees. At the beginning of the park, there was the "Founder's Tree". It was pretty huge, but if you walk to the back of the trail there is a tree that fell down in '93 called The Dyerville Giant. It has a 56' circumference at the base. HUGE! Here we are standing in front of it.
Do you see how ginormous!?! I'm 5'6", then my kids are above my head, and the dang stinking gigantic tree is still a good 3 feet above their heads. And it's on it's side! We just really couldn't believe our eyes. As we walked around we kept saying "Look over there!", "Oh, look at that one!", "Wow!", "Holy C-R-A-P (spelled out for the kids sake)!" After we walked around the little park, we stopped at one of the tiny roadside towns and had lunch. All along the Avenue there are these little towns. It is the strangest thing, you'll be driving along and see a sign like: Smallville
Population: 57
and you're looking around wondering "Where?" Then, you'll see a tiny little marketplace and a Tuff Shed with a "Smallville US Post Office" sign on it! So random, then you start to wonder what it would be like to live on the Avenue of the Giants. Could you ever get sick of seeing those trees? I don't think so. I know we didn't all day long.
After a really delish lunch, we drove down to the Drive-Thru Tree, paid our $7 and drove through a real-live tree.
The boys rode on the back of the car and thought that was pretty awesome. At this park they have a sign that tells you all of things you can tell from a cross-section of one of the trees. For example, wet vs. dry years, whether it grew fast (cause it was by a water source) or grew slow, and also how old the tree was. The tree by the sign was about 5,000 years old! It was here long before any of our recorded history. They had marked things on the tree like "The signing of the Declaration of Independence", "When Colombus sailed to the Americas" and stuff like that. Pretty cool.
Well, if you can't tell I thought the Redwoods were kind of unbelievable and if you have never been there, it is well worth the trip.
Next Stop: Gold Beach and The Rogue River
This was pretty cool, but the ones we found out in the forest that still had the roots attached were a lot more awe-inspiring. We just kept saying, "Can you imagine being here when this fell?" or "How loud do you think it would be?"
The boys are standing in the hole that this tree made when it fell. Can you see how huge the base is? We couldn't even get the whole thing in the frame! We found this part of the forest where you could park and go walk on this little trail, so you could really get out into the trees. At the beginning of the park, there was the "Founder's Tree". It was pretty huge, but if you walk to the back of the trail there is a tree that fell down in '93 called The Dyerville Giant. It has a 56' circumference at the base. HUGE! Here we are standing in front of it.
Do you see how ginormous!?! I'm 5'6", then my kids are above my head, and the dang stinking gigantic tree is still a good 3 feet above their heads. And it's on it's side! We just really couldn't believe our eyes. As we walked around we kept saying "Look over there!", "Oh, look at that one!", "Wow!", "Holy C-R-A-P (spelled out for the kids sake)!" After we walked around the little park, we stopped at one of the tiny roadside towns and had lunch. All along the Avenue there are these little towns. It is the strangest thing, you'll be driving along and see a sign like: SmallvillePopulation: 57
and you're looking around wondering "Where?" Then, you'll see a tiny little marketplace and a Tuff Shed with a "Smallville US Post Office" sign on it! So random, then you start to wonder what it would be like to live on the Avenue of the Giants. Could you ever get sick of seeing those trees? I don't think so. I know we didn't all day long.
After a really delish lunch, we drove down to the Drive-Thru Tree, paid our $7 and drove through a real-live tree.
The boys rode on the back of the car and thought that was pretty awesome. At this park they have a sign that tells you all of things you can tell from a cross-section of one of the trees. For example, wet vs. dry years, whether it grew fast (cause it was by a water source) or grew slow, and also how old the tree was. The tree by the sign was about 5,000 years old! It was here long before any of our recorded history. They had marked things on the tree like "The signing of the Declaration of Independence", "When Colombus sailed to the Americas" and stuff like that. Pretty cool.Well, if you can't tell I thought the Redwoods were kind of unbelievable and if you have never been there, it is well worth the trip.
Next Stop: Gold Beach and The Rogue River
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