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A woodpecker can be heard, the signature “tuck tuck tuck” of its beak pounding into a nearby tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evening especially is one of those moments where the forest quiets for the visitors, but the forest comes alive for the wildlife,” Ritchey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchey shows photos of other animals that call this park home at night, like bats, deer and even mountain lions, but promises the latter shouldn’t make an appearance tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Redwood Creek, Ritchey points out the handiwork of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/civilian-conservation-corps.htm\">Civilian Conservation Corps\u003c/a>, which, back in the ’30s and ’40s, built stone walls along the creek to control erosion and prevent flooding. Today, they explain, the park takes a more modern approach, allowing debris to build up in the creek naturally to support coho salmon habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cori Castro, who lives in San Rafael, said she tried for months to get a Muir Woods night tour ticket. Then, this month, her friend came to the rescue with an extra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her serendipitous luck even continued on the tour, Castro said, when she glanced up during the meditation and realized she recognized a specific tree from an earlier encounter decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078109 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Jace Ritchey leads a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I looked over, and I was like, ‘That tree looks really familiar,’” she said. “I remember it’s from a picture that I took of my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tree from the photograph “looks exactly the same,” she said. “And my kids are 30 and 28 now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said she’s been feeling weighed down by politics, the news and the general state of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you come here, and you’re like — all that goes away,” she said. “That’s what this reminds me of: how insignificant I am, and we are. It gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Be one, benevolent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night hikers follow a trail that climbs up above the trees, bringing them eye-to-eye with the canopy. Darkness is closing in, and they’re watching their step carefully while using their flashlights and the light of the moon high in the sky, a bright beacon above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group stops for a history lesson. It starts with all the usual players — the white men who fought to protect this place from logging and destruction, and who named this park after naturalist John Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ritchey said there’s more to the story, telling the assembled hikers about the stewardship of the Coast Miwok and the contributions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/how-women-saved-muir-woods.htm\">a group of women \u003c/a>who fought for park conservation in the early 1900s. And Ritchey calls out the founders’ belief in eugenics, “who I kid you not saw in redwood trees a metaphor for the greatness of white people,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Jace Ritchey leads a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In keeping with tonight’s theme of community and perspective, Ritchey draws a lesson for the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like the trees are connected to their ecosystem, people connected, shared their resources, and said, ‘We want to protect a place we love. We will take action to do so,’” Ritchey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As darkness falls upon this place — and only feet away from you, you cannot see the faces of each other — know you are surrounded by people who care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the end of the tour, and time to pass back through Cathedral Grove — a federally designated “quiet area.” In the 1940s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-united-nations-memorial-service-at-muir-woods.htm\">delegates from the United Nations came\u003c/a> to this spot during the organization’s founding to remind them what peace feels like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oren Finard (left) and Rye Jupiter Seekins take part in a forest-bathing exercise, lying down and listening to the surrounding forest, during a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ritchey asks the group to turn off their lights and “bask in moonglow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to end, Ritchey’s favorite part of the tour: When the hikers make a single file line and wait for the person ahead of them to disappear into the silent darkness before they follow. Even though they’re all just a few paces behind each other, it feels like they’re out here alone in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to inspire people to be one, benevolent, like so many presences in this forest are,” Ritchey said. “But ultimately, we have that choice to make. So make a good one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happy trails and good night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to take an unexpected tour of Muir Woods to know about this and other ranger tours\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/mount-tamalpais-muir-woods-national-monument/muir-woods-night-tour\">Tickets for the free Muir Woods night tour\u003c/a> are released two weeks ahead of the program at 8 a.m., and you can reserve tickets for a maximum of 6 people. You won’t be able to go through the ticket reservation process until that “two weeks before” date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050823/muir-woods-reservation-parking-redwood-forests-bay-area-alternative\">Muir Woods parking reservations\u003c/a> are not required for this tour if you arrive after 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078108 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2026 Muir Woods night tours take place on the following Fridays:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>April 24 (registration passed)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>May 29 (opens 5/15)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>June 26 (opens 6/12)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 31 (opens 7/17)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aug. 28 (opens 8/14)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sept. 25 (opens 9/11)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oct. 30 (opens 10/16)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You could also check out the more strenuous 3-mile \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqnJu2D8tp/\">“Owl Prowl”\u003c/a> guided hike at dusk in Muir Woods. Reservations are also required for this tour, which takes place on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>May 9 (reservations open April 25)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aug 15 (reservations open Aug. 1)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nov 7 (reservations open Oct. 24)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors walk through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While night tour tickets are tough to snag, if you miss out, there are other free Muir Woods tours open to the public that don’t require signups, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“Welcome to The Woods” 15-minute talks: Offered daily at 10:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. (and at 3:15 p.m. starting in May)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One-hour ranger tours: Offered Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at 11 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Occasional Muir Woods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=18475460-98D8-FFE0-AD0BA5EC3E0972AB\">Junior Ranger Days\u003c/a> with activities for all ages. Entry fee is waived for this event, but parking reservations are still required.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this time of day, birds are chirping all around as dusk falls and the gurgle of a creek can be heard far off. The usually bustling park is nearly empty, apart from the lucky group lying on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not your typical walk through these famous trees. This is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/mount-tamalpais-muir-woods-national-monument/muir-woods-night-tour\">Muir Woods night tour\u003c/a>, a monthly event on the last Friday of each month, between January and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078106 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But getting tickets to this in-demand ranger program is no easy feat. They go on sale two weeks before the tour and sell out almost immediately, Ritchey said, and the May tour garnered more than 400 signups within just an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme of this April tour, Ritchey tells the group on the boardwalk, is “community and perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So as we walk into this old-growth ecosystem, I invite you to connect and reflect on what community means to you,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Behind the scenes on the night tour\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tour itself is a two-mile walk, hitting all the famous landmarks in the central part of the park, meandering along the Redwood Grove Trail and Hillside Trail to pass landmarks like Founders Grove and Cathedral Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the entrance to the park, Ritchey explains to the assembled night tourers that, unlike so many other places where old-growth redwood trees were logged or destroyed, this forest was protected, preserving its biodiversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchey leads the group into the forest just as the sun is setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-48-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-48-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-48-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-48-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors walk through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of them, Oakland resident Oren Finard, who’s attending with his in-laws tonight, is actually visiting Muir Woods for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t think of a prettier way to see this place than at twilight and with nobody else in the park,” he said. “That is pretty special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Founders Grove, Muir Woods intern Ellie Hennessy asks the group to share a place where they’ve felt a sense of awe in nature. For Kenny Coy, visiting from Novato with his wife, that’s the Gualala River in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The river will get super calm and glassy,” Coy said. “It’s really awesome.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When the group lies down on the boardwalk for their meditation, they find that the sounds of the forest become amplified. A woodpecker can be heard, the signature “tuck tuck tuck” of its beak pounding into a nearby tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evening especially is one of those moments where the forest quiets for the visitors, but the forest comes alive for the wildlife,” Ritchey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchey shows photos of other animals that call this park home at night, like bats, deer and even mountain lions, but promises the latter shouldn’t make an appearance tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Redwood Creek, Ritchey points out the handiwork of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/civilian-conservation-corps.htm\">Civilian Conservation Corps\u003c/a>, which, back in the ’30s and ’40s, built stone walls along the creek to control erosion and prevent flooding. Today, they explain, the park takes a more modern approach, allowing debris to build up in the creek naturally to support coho salmon habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cori Castro, who lives in San Rafael, said she tried for months to get a Muir Woods night tour ticket. Then, this month, her friend came to the rescue with an extra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her serendipitous luck even continued on the tour, Castro said, when she glanced up during the meditation and realized she recognized a specific tree from an earlier encounter decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078109 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Jace Ritchey leads a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I looked over, and I was like, ‘That tree looks really familiar,’” she said. “I remember it’s from a picture that I took of my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tree from the photograph “looks exactly the same,” she said. “And my kids are 30 and 28 now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said she’s been feeling weighed down by politics, the news and the general state of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you come here, and you’re like — all that goes away,” she said. “That’s what this reminds me of: how insignificant I am, and we are. It gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Be one, benevolent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night hikers follow a trail that climbs up above the trees, bringing them eye-to-eye with the canopy. Darkness is closing in, and they’re watching their step carefully while using their flashlights and the light of the moon high in the sky, a bright beacon above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group stops for a history lesson. It starts with all the usual players — the white men who fought to protect this place from logging and destruction, and who named this park after naturalist John Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ritchey said there’s more to the story, telling the assembled hikers about the stewardship of the Coast Miwok and the contributions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/how-women-saved-muir-woods.htm\">a group of women \u003c/a>who fought for park conservation in the early 1900s. And Ritchey calls out the founders’ belief in eugenics, “who I kid you not saw in redwood trees a metaphor for the greatness of white people,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-59-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Jace Ritchey leads a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In keeping with tonight’s theme of community and perspective, Ritchey draws a lesson for the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like the trees are connected to their ecosystem, people connected, shared their resources, and said, ‘We want to protect a place we love. We will take action to do so,’” Ritchey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As darkness falls upon this place — and only feet away from you, you cannot see the faces of each other — know you are surrounded by people who care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the end of the tour, and time to pass back through Cathedral Grove — a federally designated “quiet area.” In the 1940s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-united-nations-memorial-service-at-muir-woods.htm\">delegates from the United Nations came\u003c/a> to this spot during the organization’s founding to remind them what peace feels like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oren Finard (left) and Rye Jupiter Seekins take part in a forest-bathing exercise, lying down and listening to the surrounding forest, during a night walking tour through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ritchey asks the group to turn off their lights and “bask in moonglow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to end, Ritchey’s favorite part of the tour: When the hikers make a single file line and wait for the person ahead of them to disappear into the silent darkness before they follow. Even though they’re all just a few paces behind each other, it feels like they’re out here alone in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to inspire people to be one, benevolent, like so many presences in this forest are,” Ritchey said. “But ultimately, we have that choice to make. So make a good one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happy trails and good night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to take an unexpected tour of Muir Woods to know about this and other ranger tours\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/mount-tamalpais-muir-woods-national-monument/muir-woods-night-tour\">Tickets for the free Muir Woods night tour\u003c/a> are released two weeks ahead of the program at 8 a.m., and you can reserve tickets for a maximum of 6 people. You won’t be able to go through the ticket reservation process until that “two weeks before” date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050823/muir-woods-reservation-parking-redwood-forests-bay-area-alternative\">Muir Woods parking reservations\u003c/a> are not required for this tour if you arrive after 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078108 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-36-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2026 Muir Woods night tours take place on the following Fridays:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>April 24 (registration passed)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>May 29 (opens 5/15)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>June 26 (opens 6/12)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 31 (opens 7/17)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aug. 28 (opens 8/14)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sept. 25 (opens 9/11)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oct. 30 (opens 10/16)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You could also check out the more strenuous 3-mile \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqnJu2D8tp/\">“Owl Prowl”\u003c/a> guided hike at dusk in Muir Woods. Reservations are also required for this tour, which takes place on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>May 9 (reservations open April 25)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aug 15 (reservations open Aug. 1)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nov 7 (reservations open Oct. 24)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260327-MUIRWOODSNIGHTTOUR-66-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors walk through Muir Woods National Monument on March 27, 2026, during a ranger-led night walking tour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While night tour tickets are tough to snag, if you miss out, there are other free Muir Woods tours open to the public that don’t require signups, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“Welcome to The Woods” 15-minute talks: Offered daily at 10:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. (and at 3:15 p.m. starting in May)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One-hour ranger tours: Offered Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at 11 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Occasional Muir Woods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=18475460-98D8-FFE0-AD0BA5EC3E0972AB\">Junior Ranger Days\u003c/a> with activities for all ages. Entry fee is waived for this event, but parking reservations are still required.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After being initially closed for several weeks as a result of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">the ongoing federal government shutdown,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">Muir Woods National Monument will remain temporarily open \u003c/a>through Nov. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061286/muir-woods-reopens-amid-government-shutdown-temporarily\">The park was reopened on Oct. 23\u003c/a> after several companies associated with the park made donations to the National Park Service, and has seen its temporary reopening extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999035/rain-on-me-bay-area-braces-for-a-wet-and-windy-atmospheric-river-storm\">anticipated rain and winds,\u003c/a> Muir Woods will close for one day on Wednesday, Nov. 5, according to Faycal Bouaddallah, owner of tour company Must See Tours — one of the groups continuing to fund the park’s reopened operations during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since it’s financed with private money, [NPS is] thinking that it’s better to keep it closed that day — because if they bring staff that day and we cannot open the park, people won’t be able to come.” Bouaddallah said, noting that Muir Woods’ temporary reopening will be extended through Nov. 12 to account for this week’s one-day closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NPS confirmed in an email to KQED last week that short-term donations like this one have been keeping some parks open during the shutdown “in several states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park’s reopening through private funds is permitted by the NPS’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-09/doi-nps-lapse-plan2025930508.pdf\">shutdown plan,\u003c/a> and is the same funding model being used to keep \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058592/alcatraz-island-is-open-again-after-several-false-starts\">Alcatraz Island open.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The costs of reopening Muir Woods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Bouaddallah, company \u003ca href=\"https://goexplorus.com/\">ExplorUS\u003c/a> — which operates the \u003ca href=\"https://muirwoodstradingcompany.com/\">Muir Woods Trading Company\u003c/a> and park cafe — teamed up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mustsee.world/\">Must See Tours\u003c/a> to offer the first round of funding which enabled the park to reopen on Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bouaddallah said he reached out to other tour operators in the park, as well as other major Bay Area-based companies, to ask for help funding the costs of keeping Muir Woods open and staffed: now around $3,800 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, he said, his company and ExplorUS were the only ones willing to fund an extension of the reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also just published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-muir-woods-open-during-government-shutdown\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> page, which as of Tuesday has raised nearly $3,500: almost enough to fund one day of operations, “which is amazing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the shutdown, Bouddallah said he plans to redirect as many of the proceeds from his company’s tours as possible into donations to keep Muir Woods open — as well as money from special T-shirt and audio tour sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bouddallah said he doesn’t expect to make up the money in the short-term, but after seven years operating in Muir Woods, and with federal workers needing the park to be open to get paid, he felt the need to step up and help out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the books, it’s a total disaster,” he said. “We don’t make that money back at all. It was a way to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Muir Woods was first reopened on Oct, 23, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy told KQED that in addition to the Muir Woods Trading Company and Must See Tours, “operational support” during the park would also be provided by ACE Parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted for confirmation if the company was associated with the extension of Muir Woods’ reopening as well, a spokesperson for ACE told KQED they were “not at liberty to discuss the details,” and referred all comment to NPS, who did not reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reopening the redwoods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial reopening was confirmed in a memo that Sally Golub, acting chief of business management at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, sent to companies operating in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re grateful to see Muir Woods remain open a little longer,” Christine Lehnertz, Conservancy president & CEO, told KQED by email on Oct. 31. “This moment speaks to the dedication of our partners and the deep care our community has for these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it also reminds us that these are temporary solutions. Parks need lasting support to stay open and resilient for generations to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this temporary reopening, the usual $15 entrance fee remains waived. \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/\">Parking and shuttle reservations\u003c/a> are once again required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visitor center will remain open during this extended period, along with the Muir Woods Trading Company, which manages the park’s gift shop and cafe. Rangers are on-site and providing programs, the memo said.[aside postID=news_12060911 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz told KQED that the park is currently being staffed by interpretive rangers, reflecting a focus on the “visitor experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other NPS staff like park biologists and natural resource experts remain furloughed, so it’s still not possible to know the extent of any damage to the park during the shutdown, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit like having a monster under the bed,” said Lehnertz. “The monster’s not there until you look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Huber, owner of San Francisco Jeep Tours, which operates trips to the park, said the park’s reopening had been in the works for the last several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company isn’t currently donating money to the Muir Woods reopening, Huber says he was part of a group of business owners that volunteered to provide funds toward the estimated $4,700 per day required to initially keep Muir Woods open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Muir Woods’ closure, Huber said his company redirected their Jeeps to Mill Valley and Mt. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Santa Rosa resident Sean Jennings arrived at Yosemite National Park last week on a weekday during the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">government shutdown\u003c/a>, he was shocked by how busy the park was: “There were people everywhere,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings had planned a leaf peeping trip through the Sierra with his daughter Sugar and had reserved one night’s stay in Yosemite itself at Porcupine Flats campground, near Tioga Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As frequent visitors to national parks, Jennings said he and his daughter were surprised to find bumper-to-bumper traffic, full parking lots and piled-up garbage — especially for a Monday in October. He also reported “a general undercurrent of, I wouldn’t say hostility, but unease” among their fellow visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on top of it all, when the family pulled into their campground, with no rangers around to check in campground guests and enforce bookings, there was somebody already set up in the spot that they had reserved and paid for weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings said the person did politely pack up and leave when confronted. But overall, “there was definitely a level of brusqueness” to most of his interactions with other visitors in the park, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1846156476-scaled-e1759449061670.jpg\" alt=\"state parks\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign is seen at the Yosemite National Park on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t feel as welcoming, as open as it has in the past for us,” he said. “It felt disorganized and had sort of a ‘first-come-first-serve,’ ‘screw you’ type of feeling to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">Unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058508/yes-yosemite-is-open-during-the-shutdown-but-with-lots-of-changes-for-visitors\">Yosemite has remained open during the federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, albeit with a drastically reduced workforce. And more than two weeks in, with many of their workers off the job, \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12059380/should-i-still-visit-yosemite-and-other-questions-about-national-parks-during-the-shutdown\">national parks are starting to feel the effects\u003c/a> of the federal government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some say reports of unpermitted activity at Yosemite National Park are overblown, others say an uptick in visitors has been significant and noticeable – so much that they’re worried about the long-term effects not just on the park, but on the behavior of future park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Eerie’ in the Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Rose, Sierra Nevada program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, visited Yosemite late last week and said most things appeared normal. For the most part, the bathrooms he saw were clean, and the trash had been taken out, and a volunteer was even on duty as his campground host. But the park had an “eerie” feel, Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It almost felt like you showed up to class and none of the teachers were there,” he said. “I didn’t see a single National Park Service employee — not a single ranger wearing a ranger suit, walking around or helping visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorist passes through the Tioga Pass fee station at the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, which is vacant of available employees to collect fees that help fund the park, on the first day of the government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, in Yosemite National Park, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s because most park rangers, particularly “interpretive rangers” — those that share park information with the public — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/government-shutdown-who-affected-bay-area-california-social-security-airports-national-parks-courts-fleet-week-sf\">have been furloughed during the shutdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the interim, volunteers and employees from the nonprofit Yosemite Conservancy are staffing a single welcome center in the Valley. But all other visitor centers and museums, as well as the park entrance kiosks, are closed. There are no ranger programs, no maps being handed out and some Yosemite campgrounds don’t even have a volunteer making sure that reservations are being honored — or that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002429/california-camping-tahoe-yosemite-bears-safety-what-to-do-bear-spray\">people are storing their food away from bears \u003c/a>and other wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many weekend visitors to Yosemite posting \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Yosemite/comments/1o6mltd/current_state_of_campgrounds/\">to Reddit\u003c/a> reported that, like Rose, they saw nothing out of the ordinary in the park during the shutdown. But nonetheless, Rose said, just one bad actor can have a major impact — and with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910047/yosemite-and-other-ca-national-parks-underfunded-understaffed-this-summer\">staffing already down this year\u003c/a> in national parks, added to President Donald Trump’s threats to cut even more employees during the shutdown, Rose is worried about the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw before the shutdown and during the shutdown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-cuts-national-parks.html\">we don’t have adequate levels of staffing\u003c/a> to protect visitors and protect resources,” Rose said. “The concern is the longer this drags on, the more of these impacts we’re going to continue to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Short on staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the shutdown loomed in late September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">a group of former national parks superintendents sounded the alarm\u003c/a> about the effect that keeping parks open without full staff could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many of their colleagues off the job, the few people deemed essential and still working in Yosemite — including fire and search-and-rescue crews — are under strain. One federal worker in the park, who spoke to KQED on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and losing their job, said the park has been busy, “like all the time,” since the shutdown, with visitorship more resembling the park’s summer peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1536x997.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look up at El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California, on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nobody to stop them at the gate,” they said. With nobody on duty to collect entrance fees, “everybody knows that it’s free, so they’re just coming.” KQED reached out to Yosemite National Park representatives for comment, but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also still working are law enforcement rangers, essentially the police at parks, but Elisabeth Barton, founding member and CEO of tour company Echo Adventure Cooperative, said they are doing “double duty,” as they attempt to enforce rules that visitors were never apprised of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton, whose group guides trips in Yosemite and Stanislaus National Forest, described the scene in Yosemite during the last two weeks as “wild.”[aside postID=news_12059380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg']Barton said she fears the shutdown has actually attracted a more “aggressive” type of visitor — one that saw that parks would be open but unstaffed, and decided to come anyway. And for some, to take the opportunity to do an activity that’s normally banned or requires a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/why-does-everyone-suddenly-want-to-rock-climb/\">soaring popularity of climbing as a sport\u003c/a>, which is in one of its \u003ca href=\"https://wildlandtrekking.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-rock-climbing-in-yosemite/\">peak seasons\u003c/a> in the park, may explain the lines she’s seen during the shutdown at popular Yosemite routes like “The Nose” of El Capitan, she said. And while you’ll find people doing unpermitted things in the park all year round, Barton said, she thinks people have gotten more bold — \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/15/yosemite-national-park-base-jumpers-government-shutdown/86703269007/\">BASE jumping off cliffs without a permit in broad daylight\u003c/a> and flying drones, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/use-of-unmanned-aircraft-systems-drones-prohibited-in-yosemite-national-park.htm%3Fcmpid%3Dpscau\">an activity that’s banned in national parks\u003c/a> — knowing there aren’t enough staff to enforce the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of her guiding company have “been trying to do our part and just remind people that [drones are] illegal, and they do not care,” she said. “And they have told us such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This past weekend felt like the Fourth of July, it was so busy,” the anonymous park worker said — and is especially concerned about the unchecked visitor behavior they’ve witnessed during the shutdown. “There are so many people parked all over the place, parked in the dirt, parked on plants and other resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the campgrounds themselves, “there’s definitely been an uptick in people squatting,” they said — just like the Jennings family encountered at Porcupine Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bad standard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Yosemite shutdown crowds have Barton feeling “very conflicted,” she said. On the one hand, her co-op’s guiding business, hotel and outdoor shop have thrived during this period. “It’s incredibly beneficial to my company to have the shutdown when it’s happening, because the shoulder season is now busier than it’s ever been,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Barton believes everyone should experience the beauty of national parks, especially those who’ve never been to one before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1491_STA_629-e1555526819429.jpg\" alt=\"El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time, I’m seeing unprecedented damage to my park,” she said. And while the number of people actually breaking the rules — intentionally or unintentionally — may be relatively small, Barton worries that bad actors are setting a particularly bad example for those first-time visitors, who may build undesirable habits and cause damage at parks in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a standard being set for a national park visitor — the folks who would never dare pull a drone out of their vehicle because it’s just against the rules and they know it,” she said. “While they’re in the park, they’re seeing all these drones moving and they’re like, ‘You know what, maybe it’s not that big of a deal?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anonymous park worker said there’s not much they can do to stop the behavior. Law enforcement is generally too busy to ticket everyone, and they’re skeptical they’ll receive word of changes from park leadership anytime soon. “Information is not being disseminated,” they said — and the leadership above them “doesn’t know anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose, too, worries this may just be the start of bigger impacts for national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last shutdown was 35 days,” he said. “And it wasn’t until we got about 3 weeks into it that you really started to see some of the impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But overall, “there was definitely a level of brusqueness” to most of his interactions with other visitors in the park, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1846156476-scaled-e1759449061670.jpg\" alt=\"state parks\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign is seen at the Yosemite National Park on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t feel as welcoming, as open as it has in the past for us,” he said. “It felt disorganized and had sort of a ‘first-come-first-serve,’ ‘screw you’ type of feeling to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">Unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058508/yes-yosemite-is-open-during-the-shutdown-but-with-lots-of-changes-for-visitors\">Yosemite has remained open during the federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, albeit with a drastically reduced workforce. And more than two weeks in, with many of their workers off the job, \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12059380/should-i-still-visit-yosemite-and-other-questions-about-national-parks-during-the-shutdown\">national parks are starting to feel the effects\u003c/a> of the federal government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some say reports of unpermitted activity at Yosemite National Park are overblown, others say an uptick in visitors has been significant and noticeable – so much that they’re worried about the long-term effects not just on the park, but on the behavior of future park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Eerie’ in the Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Rose, Sierra Nevada program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, visited Yosemite late last week and said most things appeared normal. For the most part, the bathrooms he saw were clean, and the trash had been taken out, and a volunteer was even on duty as his campground host. But the park had an “eerie” feel, Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It almost felt like you showed up to class and none of the teachers were there,” he said. “I didn’t see a single National Park Service employee — not a single ranger wearing a ranger suit, walking around or helping visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorist passes through the Tioga Pass fee station at the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, which is vacant of available employees to collect fees that help fund the park, on the first day of the government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, in Yosemite National Park, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s because most park rangers, particularly “interpretive rangers” — those that share park information with the public — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/government-shutdown-who-affected-bay-area-california-social-security-airports-national-parks-courts-fleet-week-sf\">have been furloughed during the shutdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the interim, volunteers and employees from the nonprofit Yosemite Conservancy are staffing a single welcome center in the Valley. But all other visitor centers and museums, as well as the park entrance kiosks, are closed. There are no ranger programs, no maps being handed out and some Yosemite campgrounds don’t even have a volunteer making sure that reservations are being honored — or that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002429/california-camping-tahoe-yosemite-bears-safety-what-to-do-bear-spray\">people are storing their food away from bears \u003c/a>and other wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many weekend visitors to Yosemite posting \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Yosemite/comments/1o6mltd/current_state_of_campgrounds/\">to Reddit\u003c/a> reported that, like Rose, they saw nothing out of the ordinary in the park during the shutdown. But nonetheless, Rose said, just one bad actor can have a major impact — and with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910047/yosemite-and-other-ca-national-parks-underfunded-understaffed-this-summer\">staffing already down this year\u003c/a> in national parks, added to President Donald Trump’s threats to cut even more employees during the shutdown, Rose is worried about the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw before the shutdown and during the shutdown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-cuts-national-parks.html\">we don’t have adequate levels of staffing\u003c/a> to protect visitors and protect resources,” Rose said. “The concern is the longer this drags on, the more of these impacts we’re going to continue to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Short on staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the shutdown loomed in late September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">a group of former national parks superintendents sounded the alarm\u003c/a> about the effect that keeping parks open without full staff could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many of their colleagues off the job, the few people deemed essential and still working in Yosemite — including fire and search-and-rescue crews — are under strain. One federal worker in the park, who spoke to KQED on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and losing their job, said the park has been busy, “like all the time,” since the shutdown, with visitorship more resembling the park’s summer peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1536x997.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look up at El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California, on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nobody to stop them at the gate,” they said. With nobody on duty to collect entrance fees, “everybody knows that it’s free, so they’re just coming.” KQED reached out to Yosemite National Park representatives for comment, but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also still working are law enforcement rangers, essentially the police at parks, but Elisabeth Barton, founding member and CEO of tour company Echo Adventure Cooperative, said they are doing “double duty,” as they attempt to enforce rules that visitors were never apprised of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton, whose group guides trips in Yosemite and Stanislaus National Forest, described the scene in Yosemite during the last two weeks as “wild.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Jared Huffman, D-Marin, has condemned President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">ongoing efforts to force national parks to remove historical material from public display\u003c/a> as censorship and “pure propaganda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman, who serves as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee,\u003ca href=\"https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=418384\"> used his opening remarks at Thursday’s committee hearing\u003c/a> to criticize the Trump administration’s attempts to “whitewash” national parks through a March executive order: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This directive instructs staff working at all National Park Service locations to review any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living,” and to submit them to the federal government for potential removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is trying to censor the history told in our national parks and historic sites,” Huffman told the committee. “Now we find ourselves deeper and deeper into this ‘cancel culture’ dystopia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman also derided his Republican colleagues in Congress for not speaking out about the order, saying they “just looked the other way.” They are “completely complicit in what is happening right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors leave Muir Woods National Monument on July 24, 2025, in Muir Woods National Monument, California. Under a directive from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Trump administration, the National Park Service has removed an exhibit at Muir Woods National Monument that aimed to tell a more comprehensive history of the site. The exhibit was installed in 2021 and amended to highlight previously untold narratives of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples who stewarded the land for hundreds of years, and the efforts by the California Club, a women’s organization, to save the forest in the early 20th century. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the March order, parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">staff have been left scrambling to review thousands of written materials\u003c/a> from waysigns, interpretive signs and exhibits to brochures, films screened within park buildings and even merchandise sold in park kiosks and bookstores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053628/richmond-rally-national-parks-trump-white-house-rosie-the-riveter-world-war-ii-homefront\">advocates in California have expressed fears \u003c/a>that removing historical materials from parks could erase certain narratives, including the state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Pure propaganda’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In his remarks on Thursday, Huffman cited \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/nkzEj\">\u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cu>’\u003c/u>s report that the Trump administration had ordered one unnamed national park to remove the famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.54375/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1863 photograph\u003c/a> known as ‘The Scourged Back’ from display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image, which depicts the back of a formerly enslaved man scarred by the violence of slavery, is \u003ca href=\"https://journalpanorama.org/article/the-time-has-now-gone-by/\">credited\u003c/a> with impacting public opinion of the Confederacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1-1536x1022.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Muir Woods ‘History in Construction’ Exhibit, which was put up in 2021 to honor previously undocumented contributions to the park’s stewardship. Signs like this one were part of the Trump Administration’s removal order. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NPS/Jace Ritchey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Removing these exhibits from places that teach and interpret our history is not patriotic,” Huffman said. “It is pure propaganda. It’s un-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first removals as a result of the order was at Muir Woods National Monument, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">where an exhibit was taken down in July.\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">exhibit\u003c/a>, called “History Under Construction,” was created in 2021 to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation as well as the often racist and violent past of Muir Woods’ more notable founders.[aside postID=news_12055659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-15-BL-KQED.jpg']Over the past few weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">other parks across the country have received notices\u003c/a> from the Trump administration that the materials submitted by employees have been flagged for removal. The notices give parks staff two weeks to make a plan to remove, alter or cover the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/huffman-colleagues-sound-alarm-on-trump-order-whitewashing-american-history-in-national-parks\">letter\u003c/a> back in August in protest of Trump’s executive order, requesting more information about who within the federal government would ultimately decide what gets taken down from National Parks. But he told KQED that he has not received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way this happens at any other time in American history,” he said in an interview with KQED earlier this month. “This administration thinks they don’t have to talk with or even deal with Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Marin, has condemned President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">ongoing efforts to force national parks to remove historical material from public display\u003c/a> as censorship and “pure propaganda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman, who serves as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee,\u003ca href=\"https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=418384\"> used his opening remarks at Thursday’s committee hearing\u003c/a> to criticize the Trump administration’s attempts to “whitewash” national parks through a March executive order: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This directive instructs staff working at all National Park Service locations to review any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living,” and to submit them to the federal government for potential removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is trying to censor the history told in our national parks and historic sites,” Huffman told the committee. “Now we find ourselves deeper and deeper into this ‘cancel culture’ dystopia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman also derided his Republican colleagues in Congress for not speaking out about the order, saying they “just looked the other way.” They are “completely complicit in what is happening right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TrumpCaliforniaNatlParksGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors leave Muir Woods National Monument on July 24, 2025, in Muir Woods National Monument, California. Under a directive from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Trump administration, the National Park Service has removed an exhibit at Muir Woods National Monument that aimed to tell a more comprehensive history of the site. The exhibit was installed in 2021 and amended to highlight previously untold narratives of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples who stewarded the land for hundreds of years, and the efforts by the California Club, a women’s organization, to save the forest in the early 20th century. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the March order, parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">staff have been left scrambling to review thousands of written materials\u003c/a> from waysigns, interpretive signs and exhibits to brochures, films screened within park buildings and even merchandise sold in park kiosks and bookstores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053628/richmond-rally-national-parks-trump-white-house-rosie-the-riveter-world-war-ii-homefront\">advocates in California have expressed fears \u003c/a>that removing historical materials from parks could erase certain narratives, including the state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Pure propaganda’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In his remarks on Thursday, Huffman cited \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/nkzEj\">\u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cu>’\u003c/u>s report that the Trump administration had ordered one unnamed national park to remove the famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.54375/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1863 photograph\u003c/a> known as ‘The Scourged Back’ from display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image, which depicts the back of a formerly enslaved man scarred by the violence of slavery, is \u003ca href=\"https://journalpanorama.org/article/the-time-has-now-gone-by/\">credited\u003c/a> with impacting public opinion of the Confederacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1-1536x1022.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Muir Woods ‘History in Construction’ Exhibit, which was put up in 2021 to honor previously undocumented contributions to the park’s stewardship. Signs like this one were part of the Trump Administration’s removal order. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NPS/Jace Ritchey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Removing these exhibits from places that teach and interpret our history is not patriotic,” Huffman said. “It is pure propaganda. It’s un-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first removals as a result of the order was at Muir Woods National Monument, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">where an exhibit was taken down in July.\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">exhibit\u003c/a>, called “History Under Construction,” was created in 2021 to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation as well as the often racist and violent past of Muir Woods’ more notable founders.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over the past few weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">other parks across the country have received notices\u003c/a> from the Trump administration that the materials submitted by employees have been flagged for removal. The notices give parks staff two weeks to make a plan to remove, alter or cover the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/huffman-colleagues-sound-alarm-on-trump-order-whitewashing-american-history-in-national-parks\">letter\u003c/a> back in August in protest of Trump’s executive order, requesting more information about who within the federal government would ultimately decide what gets taken down from National Parks. But he told KQED that he has not received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way this happens at any other time in American history,” he said in an interview with KQED earlier this month. “This administration thinks they don’t have to talk with or even deal with Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"e-91036-text encore-text-body-medium\" data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cspan data-slate-node=\"text\">\u003cspan class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Earlier this Spring, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order telling U.S. National Park Service staff, including those in California, to scrub parks of any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Advocates and park workers say following through has been confusing and chaotic, and many worry that a true record of California’s history is at stake. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4323114838&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">As Trump Targets National Parks that ‘Disparage Americans,’ Advocates Warn California History Is At Stake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">What’s Going on With the Muir Woods Exhibit Removal?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"e-91036-text encore-text-body-medium\" data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\" data-slate-fragment=\"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\">\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Ever since January, the president’s inauguration, there has been wave after wave of issues within national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:17] Sarah Wright covers the outdoors for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:02:22] It kind of started with the February mass firing of National Parks employees. Many of those employees were reinstated to their positions, but many chose to leave and take other opportunities because they weren’t sure about the future of their work and many others retired early. So just to start off the year, staffing kind of plummeted by 25%, according to some estimates. After that, Trump started discussing budget cuts, and then he also started to come out with this series of executive orders. And the orders attempt to change what’s going on inside national parks. And one of the main ways he’s trying to do this is by changing the stories that they tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:10] I want to step back just a little bit, Sarah, and go back to March when Trump first issued this executive order that we’re talking about today. What is it exactly, and what did it do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] So in March, President Trump issued an executive order called Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. And the idea was that parks everywhere across the nation had to flag anything that might be critical of U.S. History or Americans past or living. The rationale was to focus on what he calls the beauty and grandeur of America. So he’s trying to shape this narrative that What we should focus on in these celebratory places, which many parks are, is how great the US is. And that’s in line with a lot of Trump’s rhetoric, Trump’s policies, is to emphasize the good and not put too much weight or spend too much time talking about the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] So after this executive order, how did it actually play out in practice? Like what were park staff told to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] First staff were told to post these signs with QR codes on them. That was to solicit feedback from the public about how the park is doing, anything they like or dislike, but mostly to ask them to identify anything about the park that disparages Americans. After that, over the summer, parks were told to basically document every single piece of content in the parks, maybe a wayside sign that you see on the road. That’s maybe a sign when you’re entering an exhibit. That could be a brochure you get. Even books in the bookstores and films that are shown in parks were part of this. And submit basically a big Excel sheet to their higher ups. And so that took a couple of weeks. They had a deadline to submit that over the summer and then they were told to wait. What happened next is a few parks got information back saying, thank you for flagging this. You need to come up with a plan to remove it. So they’re having to make these decisions kind of on their own with no real guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] Which is awkward in so many ways, including the fact that probably many of the people who are being asked to remove these things are the same people who worked really hard to put them together or put them up so that the public could understand and know about these histories of these parks, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Yeah, in fact, that could be exactly what happened here in California at Muir Woods. There was an exhibit put up in 2021 in response to a lot of the conversations around Black Lives Matter. And staff worked really hard to create this exhibit that showed we used to have this sign, it didn’t have enough context on the history of this park. And so they added sticky notes and other information to sort of annotate the sign. To let visitors know all of this is true on this sign, but it’s not the complete story. So let’s add the contributions of women to creating this park, the contributions to the indigenous people, and some of the context around the founder’s often racist past. And so that was an effort that the whole park supported, that the park was excited about. And this year when Muir Woods staff were asked to take down those sticky notes, we don’t know if those are the exact same staff who put them up, but there was a lot of confusion, surprise, and even anger about this directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Chris Lehnertz is the president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. It’s the nonprofit that partners with the Golden gate National Recreation Area. That group manages Muir Woods. It manages lots of other parks here in the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] You know, I can tell you that it’s a very big lift for parks. There are some parks that have 500 interpretive signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] Chris told me that when she found out that the signage was changed at Muir Woods, it was shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] I don’t think that the histories told in parks are a threat to America. They share multiple human experiences. So I hope that in the coming weeks what we see come out of Washington, D.C. Is an embrace of that multifaceted history, not a judgment of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:06] I know you actually talked to National Park Service workers directly about how these Trump directives are sort of playing out on the ground. But many of them only spoke with you anonymously. Why was that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] Yeah, so it’s a really fearful time inside of parks. Speaking with the parks superintendents who I did, they were really careful not to say anything in our interview that might be specific to their park site and they’re worried about retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:46] What did they tell you, what did you hear from them about what it’s been like on the ground to follow these executive orders from the Trump administration? And it sounds like these are really confusing orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] That was kind of the main theme of a lot of our conversations was like chaos and confusion. One superintendent told me every single week it felt like, and even every single day we were getting new directives. And we weren’t really sure which ones to act on first or how to act on them. And when we would ask follow up questions, we wouldn’t get answers. And that’s what I experienced as well in reporting this story. I asked the National Park Service to clarify a couple of points, including, who is reviewing the signage up in the national office somewhere, and I didn’t get a response to that. It’s been kind of a cloud of uncertainty, and that’s not even to mention the lack of staffing in parks right now, the fear for the future of budget cuts, and the uncertainty about whether or not parks will have the capacity to carry out their mission even next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:55] What did other rangers or park staff that you talked to say about their worries around all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Yeah, so a lot of people were worried here in California about the narratives around our Indigenous history. There was a major effort to get those stories into parks. So those histories are the types of histories that sometimes discuss how genocide occurred here in California against Indigenous people, or in the case of Manzanar, how incarceration of hundred thousand people occurred here in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] It’s dangerous because the false narratives lead to great harm to communities of color in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] I also spoke to Bruce Embrey. He co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who is incarcerated there, co-founded in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] The site was created by the Paiute and Shoshoni people whose land Manzanar sits on and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated there during World War II. It took decades of work to create that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] He and other Manzanar advocates have been among the most vocal against the Trump administration because they’re worried that this attempt to cover up or erase history might in fact cause it to be repeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] Our story is a cautionary tale, one that shows the dangers to our country when the constitution is torn up and tossed aside. I think the Trump administration and its allies want nothing more than to erase anything from our history that will show how what they’re doing is dangerous to our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Over in the South, they’re worried about the conversations around slavery. And in fact, the Washington Post reported this week that the Trump administration did direct some national park sites in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to start taking down signs. So it’s all of those stories are kind of what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:11] I mean, I’m even thinking about myself and maybe how I might’ve taken for granted seeing some of those, these signs or these histories that are just, that were just present. When do you think it might become obvious for people like me or visitors that these changes are happening, or will they notice you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:12:30] That is a huge question. A lot of people told me they’re worried that people won’t notice because they won’t know what they’re missing in a park. They won’t know the stories that aren’t being told. 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To let visitors know all of this is true on this sign, but it’s not the complete story. So let’s add the contributions of women to creating this park, the contributions to the indigenous people, and some of the context around the founder’s often racist past. And so that was an effort that the whole park supported, that the park was excited about. And this year when Muir Woods staff were asked to take down those sticky notes, we don’t know if those are the exact same staff who put them up, but there was a lot of confusion, surprise, and even anger about this directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] We were surprised that changes happened at Muir Woods so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] Chris Lehnertz is the president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. It’s the nonprofit that partners with the Golden gate National Recreation Area. That group manages Muir Woods. It manages lots of other parks here in the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] You know, I can tell you that it’s a very big lift for parks. There are some parks that have 500 interpretive signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] Chris told me that when she found out that the signage was changed at Muir Woods, it was shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Lehnertz \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] I don’t think that the histories told in parks are a threat to America. They share multiple human experiences. So I hope that in the coming weeks what we see come out of Washington, D.C. Is an embrace of that multifaceted history, not a judgment of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:06] I know you actually talked to National Park Service workers directly about how these Trump directives are sort of playing out on the ground. 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And we weren’t really sure which ones to act on first or how to act on them. And when we would ask follow up questions, we wouldn’t get answers. And that’s what I experienced as well in reporting this story. I asked the National Park Service to clarify a couple of points, including, who is reviewing the signage up in the national office somewhere, and I didn’t get a response to that. It’s been kind of a cloud of uncertainty, and that’s not even to mention the lack of staffing in parks right now, the fear for the future of budget cuts, and the uncertainty about whether or not parks will have the capacity to carry out their mission even next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:55] What did other rangers or park staff that you talked to say about their worries around all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Yeah, so a lot of people were worried here in California about the narratives around our Indigenous history. There was a major effort to get those stories into parks. So those histories are the types of histories that sometimes discuss how genocide occurred here in California against Indigenous people, or in the case of Manzanar, how incarceration of hundred thousand people occurred here in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] It’s dangerous because the false narratives lead to great harm to communities of color in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Wright \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] I also spoke to Bruce Embrey. He co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who is incarcerated there, co-founded in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce Embrey \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] The site was created by the Paiute and Shoshoni people whose land Manzanar sits on and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated there during World War II. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a damp, foggy Saturday morning in the Bay Area, and you’ve got a hankering to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50949/suffering-from-nature-deficit-disorder-try-forest-bathing\">immerse yourself in the redwoods\u003c/a> at Muir Woods National Monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then … you realize that reservations for Muir Woods parking spots are all sold out, as frequently happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled a list of next-best options to Muir Woods for Bay Area residents seeking respite in the towering redwood forests that make California stand out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may be all around us here in the Bay Area, but redwoods \u003cem>are \u003c/em>remarkable, said Dave Hall, field operations manager at \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve\u003c/a> in Sonoma County. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/\">only grow in a few areas in the world,\u003c/a> including the coast of California, and people come to Armstrong “ from all over the world specifically to see the redwoods,” Hall said.[aside postID='news_12049568,news_12049138,news_12048728' label='More Outdoor Guides']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for our top suggestions for getting lost in the state’s most iconic forests, without the hassle of crowds and reservations. And if you want to save money on entry to these state parks,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910495/how-to-get-free-entry-to-california-state-parks-with-your-library-card\"> try renting out a parks pass at your local library. \u003c/a>(And if you’re still looking for other cold-weather hiking options, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">this list of hikes best done in the gloom.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HenryCowellRedwoodsStatePark\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#PortolaRedwoodsStatePark\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ArmstrongRedwoodsStateNaturalReserve\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SamuelPTaylorStatePark\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ShuttletoMuirWoods\">Shuttle to Muir Woods\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>To go inside a tree, head to \u003ca id=\"HenryCowellRedwoodsStatePark\">\u003c/a>Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With 15 miles of trails and no reservations required, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=546\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> in the Santa Cruz Mountains has 40 acres of ancient redwoods to explore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just around a mile-long loop from your car and back, the main \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/redwood-grove-loop-trail--2\">Redwood Grove Loop Trail\u003c/a> takes you through the oldest part of the forest, whose towering trees were \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Cowell/Cowell.html\">spared from logging all the way back in the 1800s. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. \u003ccite>(zrfphoto/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s big giant tree after big giant tree,” Park Aide Ted Lodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the trail, you can even reach the famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=196340\">Fremont Tree\u003c/a>, whose open trunk is big enough to fit you (and five other friends) inside. Legend has it that when exploring the area before the Civil War, Union Army Major General \u003ca href=\"https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-c-fr%C3%A9mont\">John Frémont\u003c/a> slept in this tree — but Lodge said that part’s probably just a legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loop trail is flat, and it never gets too hot, Lodge said, but if you are feeling toasty, you can always jump in the San Lorenzo River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a longer trek, the dog and bike-friendly \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/pipeline-road-trail\">Pipeline Road Trail\u003c/a>, runs past the redwood grove and parallels the river for several miles. Or, take the \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/hike/henry-cowell-observation-deck-loop/\">5-mile loop hike\u003c/a> to the redwoods observation deck, so you can view the canopy from above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>There is a $10 fee to park your car at the state park. Dogs are allowed on many trails, but not on \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/redwood-grove-loop-trail--2\">the old-growth loop trail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For secluded camping, try \u003ca id=\"PortolaRedwoodsStatePark\">\u003c/a>Portola Redwoods in San Mateo County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So hidden in the Santa Cruz Mountains, it’s hard to believe that \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> is just over a dozen miles from the heart of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its dense canopy, large campsites and a number of trails, waterfalls and creeks to explore, this park is perfect for a quick overnight camping getaway within the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050832 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portola Redwoods State Park in San Mateo County, California. \u003ccite>(yhelfman/iStock via Getty Imaes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thick huckleberry bushes produce fruit in late summer and banana slugs are plentiful on the forest floor — plus, you can explore several easy and moderate hikes straight from your campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this park is secluded, it can get popular, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/695\">so make a reservation for overnight camping\u003c/a> or try to snag one of its walk-in sites. Or, come for the day, and adventure through the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=28557\">18 miles of trails\u003c/a>, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/iverson-trail-to-tiptoe-falls\">Iverson Trail to Tiptoe Falls\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>There is a $10 fee to park your car at the state park. Dogs are allowed only in campsites, picnic areas and on paved roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bask in the heat in Wine Country’s Hendy Woods State Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 200-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=438\">Hendy Woods State Park\u003c/a> in Mendocino County, Bay Area visitors are frequent, especially in the peak summer months when school is out, Senior Park Aide Laurie Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s close enough [to the Bay Area] where it feels like you \u003cem>went \u003c/em>somewhere, but you’re not spending your whole day driving,” Cooper said. But as soon as fall rolls around, “you can walk for an hour and not see anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050834\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Discovery Trail takes you into the heart of the redwoods at the Hendy Woods State Park, 8 miles northwest of Boonville, on Oct. 10, 2010. A trip up to Anderson Valley is just two hours from San Francisco, yet this 25-mile valley has become an internationally known appellation. \u003ccite>(Lianne Milton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The park’s main attractions are its two untouched redwood groves — \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/big-hendy-long-loop\">Big Hendy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/little-hendy-grove\">Little Hendy\u003c/a> — and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/hendy-woods-discovery-trail\">Discovery Trail\u003c/a>, a fully wheelchair-accessible way to take in the thousand-year-old trees. And don’t miss the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Hendy/LittleHendy.html\">Hermit Hut Trail\u003c/a>, which leads hikers to an area of the forest where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/hendy-woods-hermit-mendocino-redwoods-20354002.php\">Russian immigrant Petro Zailenko lived alone \u003c/a>deep in the woods and away from civilization for almost two decades in the 1960s and 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less cold than other redwood forests, Hendy Woods is ideal for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hendywoods.org/day-use-hendy-woods\">picnicking on the banks of the Navarro River or swimming under the Greenwood Road bridge.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very lucky,” Cooper said. “We’re just far enough inland where there are certain days where you smell the ocean, but the fog burns off quickly here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>It’s $8 to access the park for the day. Dogs are allowed in the park but cannot go on trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ArmstrongRedwoodsStateNaturalReserve\">\u003c/a>To hug a tree, go to Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beloved by locals and visitors alike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve,\u003c/a> just north of Guerneville and the Russian River, has something for everyone, Hall said, including an entire area dedicated to hugging an old-growth redwood. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e2JBZfY2-y0\">A ramp and wooden decking lead visitors up next to the “hugging tree,”\u003c/a> where you can take a moment and give this iconic species a big embrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve \u003ccite>(Comstock via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main trails through the old-growth grove are flat and accessible to wheelchairs and strollers, and where you can check out the park’s tallest tree, Parson Jones. You’ll also find its oldest tree, a 1,400-year-old Colonel Armstrong, and the “Icicle tree,” which is dripping with large knots called burls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re looking for a full day of hiking, there are also more strenuous trails that take you up and over the ridge to the backside of the park and into other state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the reserve can get busy between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on weekends and holidays, Hall said it tends to be quiet outside of those peak times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what first-time visitors to the park should know: “Don’t be in a hurry,” Hall said. “Come and enjoy the walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>Pay $10 to park or get in for free on foot or via bike. Dogs are allowed in the park but cannot go on trails and must stay on paved roads only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For idyllic biking, roll over to \u003ca id=\"SamuelPTaylorStatePark\">\u003c/a>Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If zooming through tall trees is on your to-do list, try bringing a bike (or renting in \u003ca href=\"https://mountainbikesf.com/\">nearby Fairfax\u003c/a>) and taking a scenic ride through \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a> in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a relaxed and flat ride, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/walk-the-cross-marin-trail.htm\">the Cross Marin Trail,\u003c/a> which follows the old North Pacific Coast Railroad for 5 miles along Lagunitas Creek. Three of these miles are through the park, where you can take in the full biodiversity of the redwood forest located just outside of Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The morning sun shines through tall redwood trees that nearly hide a campsite from view in Samuel P. Taylor State Park in California. \u003ccite>(Brent Durand/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If hiking is more your speed, head to the short \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/barnabe-peak-loop-via-barnabee-road-and-cross-marin-trail\">Pioneer Tree Trail\u003c/a> loop, whose 2.5-mile route showcases the park’s small but mighty old-growth forest. Or, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Taylor/Barnabe.html\">check out the steep 6-mile loop trek to the top of Barnabe Peak\u003c/a> for sweeping views of nearby peaks and the rolling hills and small towns of the Marin valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>It costs $8 to park in the lot. Dogs are allowed only in picnic areas and on the Cross Marin Trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Still dead set on Muir Woods? \u003ca id=\"ShuttletoMuirWoods\">\u003c/a>Try the shuttle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If none of these strike your fancy, and you’re still hoping to head to Muir Woods, \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/muir/shuttleInfo\">try taking the shuttle instead\u003c/a>. The tickets don’t sell out nearly as quickly as the parking ones do (although they do still sell out), and there are options on both weekends and weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekends and holidays, the shuttle goes to and from the \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/ferry/route-schedule/larkspur-san-francisco/\">Larkspur Landing Ferry Terminal\u003c/a>, so you can park there for free or take the ferry to another destination. Shuttles run from 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weekday shuttles go to and from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/ferry/route-schedule/sausalito-san-francisco/\">Sausalito Ferry Terminal\u003c/a>, where paid parking is available, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the shuttle tickets, which cost $3.75 each way, you’ll have to purchase your $15 entrance ticket to the park unless you have an annual national parks pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to book your shuttle in both directions, and remember: There is no cell phone service in the park, so be sure to download your tickets ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for our top suggestions for getting lost in the state’s most iconic forests, without the hassle of crowds and reservations. And if you want to save money on entry to these state parks,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910495/how-to-get-free-entry-to-california-state-parks-with-your-library-card\"> try renting out a parks pass at your local library. \u003c/a>(And if you’re still looking for other cold-weather hiking options, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">this list of hikes best done in the gloom.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HenryCowellRedwoodsStatePark\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#PortolaRedwoodsStatePark\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ArmstrongRedwoodsStateNaturalReserve\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SamuelPTaylorStatePark\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ShuttletoMuirWoods\">Shuttle to Muir Woods\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>To go inside a tree, head to \u003ca id=\"HenryCowellRedwoodsStatePark\">\u003c/a>Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With 15 miles of trails and no reservations required, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=546\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> in the Santa Cruz Mountains has 40 acres of ancient redwoods to explore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just around a mile-long loop from your car and back, the main \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/redwood-grove-loop-trail--2\">Redwood Grove Loop Trail\u003c/a> takes you through the oldest part of the forest, whose towering trees were \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Cowell/Cowell.html\">spared from logging all the way back in the 1800s. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HenryCowellRedwoodsGetty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. \u003ccite>(zrfphoto/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s big giant tree after big giant tree,” Park Aide Ted Lodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the trail, you can even reach the famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=196340\">Fremont Tree\u003c/a>, whose open trunk is big enough to fit you (and five other friends) inside. Legend has it that when exploring the area before the Civil War, Union Army Major General \u003ca href=\"https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-c-fr%C3%A9mont\">John Frémont\u003c/a> slept in this tree — but Lodge said that part’s probably just a legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loop trail is flat, and it never gets too hot, Lodge said, but if you are feeling toasty, you can always jump in the San Lorenzo River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a longer trek, the dog and bike-friendly \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/pipeline-road-trail\">Pipeline Road Trail\u003c/a>, runs past the redwood grove and parallels the river for several miles. Or, take the \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/hike/henry-cowell-observation-deck-loop/\">5-mile loop hike\u003c/a> to the redwoods observation deck, so you can view the canopy from above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>There is a $10 fee to park your car at the state park. Dogs are allowed on many trails, but not on \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/redwood-grove-loop-trail--2\">the old-growth loop trail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For secluded camping, try \u003ca id=\"PortolaRedwoodsStatePark\">\u003c/a>Portola Redwoods in San Mateo County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So hidden in the Santa Cruz Mountains, it’s hard to believe that \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> is just over a dozen miles from the heart of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its dense canopy, large campsites and a number of trails, waterfalls and creeks to explore, this park is perfect for a quick overnight camping getaway within the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050832 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/PortolaRedwoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portola Redwoods State Park in San Mateo County, California. \u003ccite>(yhelfman/iStock via Getty Imaes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thick huckleberry bushes produce fruit in late summer and banana slugs are plentiful on the forest floor — plus, you can explore several easy and moderate hikes straight from your campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this park is secluded, it can get popular, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/695\">so make a reservation for overnight camping\u003c/a> or try to snag one of its walk-in sites. Or, come for the day, and adventure through the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=28557\">18 miles of trails\u003c/a>, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/iverson-trail-to-tiptoe-falls\">Iverson Trail to Tiptoe Falls\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>There is a $10 fee to park your car at the state park. Dogs are allowed only in campsites, picnic areas and on paved roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bask in the heat in Wine Country’s Hendy Woods State Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 200-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=438\">Hendy Woods State Park\u003c/a> in Mendocino County, Bay Area visitors are frequent, especially in the peak summer months when school is out, Senior Park Aide Laurie Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s close enough [to the Bay Area] where it feels like you \u003cem>went \u003c/em>somewhere, but you’re not spending your whole day driving,” Cooper said. But as soon as fall rolls around, “you can walk for an hour and not see anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050834\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HendyWoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Discovery Trail takes you into the heart of the redwoods at the Hendy Woods State Park, 8 miles northwest of Boonville, on Oct. 10, 2010. A trip up to Anderson Valley is just two hours from San Francisco, yet this 25-mile valley has become an internationally known appellation. \u003ccite>(Lianne Milton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The park’s main attractions are its two untouched redwood groves — \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/big-hendy-long-loop\">Big Hendy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/little-hendy-grove\">Little Hendy\u003c/a> — and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/hendy-woods-discovery-trail\">Discovery Trail\u003c/a>, a fully wheelchair-accessible way to take in the thousand-year-old trees. And don’t miss the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Hendy/LittleHendy.html\">Hermit Hut Trail\u003c/a>, which leads hikers to an area of the forest where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/hendy-woods-hermit-mendocino-redwoods-20354002.php\">Russian immigrant Petro Zailenko lived alone \u003c/a>deep in the woods and away from civilization for almost two decades in the 1960s and 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less cold than other redwood forests, Hendy Woods is ideal for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hendywoods.org/day-use-hendy-woods\">picnicking on the banks of the Navarro River or swimming under the Greenwood Road bridge.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very lucky,” Cooper said. “We’re just far enough inland where there are certain days where you smell the ocean, but the fog burns off quickly here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>It’s $8 to access the park for the day. Dogs are allowed in the park but cannot go on trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ArmstrongRedwoodsStateNaturalReserve\">\u003c/a>To hug a tree, go to Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beloved by locals and visitors alike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve,\u003c/a> just north of Guerneville and the Russian River, has something for everyone, Hall said, including an entire area dedicated to hugging an old-growth redwood. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e2JBZfY2-y0\">A ramp and wooden decking lead visitors up next to the “hugging tree,”\u003c/a> where you can take a moment and give this iconic species a big embrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve \u003ccite>(Comstock via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main trails through the old-growth grove are flat and accessible to wheelchairs and strollers, and where you can check out the park’s tallest tree, Parson Jones. You’ll also find its oldest tree, a 1,400-year-old Colonel Armstrong, and the “Icicle tree,” which is dripping with large knots called burls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re looking for a full day of hiking, there are also more strenuous trails that take you up and over the ridge to the backside of the park and into other state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the reserve can get busy between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on weekends and holidays, Hall said it tends to be quiet outside of those peak times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what first-time visitors to the park should know: “Don’t be in a hurry,” Hall said. “Come and enjoy the walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>Pay $10 to park or get in for free on foot or via bike. Dogs are allowed in the park but cannot go on trails and must stay on paved roads only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For idyllic biking, roll over to \u003ca id=\"SamuelPTaylorStatePark\">\u003c/a>Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If zooming through tall trees is on your to-do list, try bringing a bike (or renting in \u003ca href=\"https://mountainbikesf.com/\">nearby Fairfax\u003c/a>) and taking a scenic ride through \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a> in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a relaxed and flat ride, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/walk-the-cross-marin-trail.htm\">the Cross Marin Trail,\u003c/a> which follows the old North Pacific Coast Railroad for 5 miles along Lagunitas Creek. Three of these miles are through the park, where you can take in the full biodiversity of the redwood forest located just outside of Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SamuelPTaylorRedwoodsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The morning sun shines through tall redwood trees that nearly hide a campsite from view in Samuel P. Taylor State Park in California. \u003ccite>(Brent Durand/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If hiking is more your speed, head to the short \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/barnabe-peak-loop-via-barnabee-road-and-cross-marin-trail\">Pioneer Tree Trail\u003c/a> loop, whose 2.5-mile route showcases the park’s small but mighty old-growth forest. Or, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Taylor/Barnabe.html\">check out the steep 6-mile loop trek to the top of Barnabe Peak\u003c/a> for sweeping views of nearby peaks and the rolling hills and small towns of the Marin valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cost: \u003c/em>It costs $8 to park in the lot. Dogs are allowed only in picnic areas and on the Cross Marin Trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Still dead set on Muir Woods? \u003ca id=\"ShuttletoMuirWoods\">\u003c/a>Try the shuttle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If none of these strike your fancy, and you’re still hoping to head to Muir Woods, \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/muir/shuttleInfo\">try taking the shuttle instead\u003c/a>. The tickets don’t sell out nearly as quickly as the parking ones do (although they do still sell out), and there are options on both weekends and weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekends and holidays, the shuttle goes to and from the \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/ferry/route-schedule/larkspur-san-francisco/\">Larkspur Landing Ferry Terminal\u003c/a>, so you can park there for free or take the ferry to another destination. Shuttles run from 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weekday shuttles go to and from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/ferry/route-schedule/sausalito-san-francisco/\">Sausalito Ferry Terminal\u003c/a>, where paid parking is available, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the shuttle tickets, which cost $3.75 each way, you’ll have to purchase your $15 entrance ticket to the park unless you have an annual national parks pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to book your shuttle in both directions, and remember: There is no cell phone service in the park, so be sure to download your tickets ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> in Marin County have removed signage that spotlighted Indigenous history, women’s contributions to the park and instances of racism in the space’s history — following \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">an executive order from President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 27 executive order criticized materials, monuments and signage within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction — which includes national parks — that “rewrite our Nation’s history” and “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/07/public-lands-women-monuments-erasure/\">the\u003cem> 19th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">the\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>POLITICO\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/burgum-asked-park-rangers-to-flag-negative-us-history-theyre-delivering/\">\u003cem>E&E News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the White House directed national parks staff to flag any signage that could violate the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” Trump wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/8858-new-order-threatens-park-service-s-efforts-to-protect-and-explore-american\">The Trump administration\u003c/a> also instructed staff at national parks to publicly post signs with QR codes inviting visitors to themselves report any signage they found to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order then gave parks a deadline: By mid-July, they had to flag any materials for possible editing or removal, which the Trump administration said it would carry out by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">Sept. 17, according to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order stated that Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum would review materials “within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction” for “improper partisan ideology” and then take action to ensure they did not “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cultural and outdoor organizations swiftly decried the order, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/\">American Historical Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/05/sierra-club-statement-interior-attempt-erase-truth-and-history-public-lands\">Sierra Club\u003c/a>. Some visitors, too, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">used the opportunity to criticize the administration’s order\u003c/a> — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/06/30/national-parks-snitch-signs-backfiring/\">praise parks staff\u003c/a> — rather than flag parks content for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happened at Muir Woods?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. But Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Winchell said the sticky notes had been removed last week pending a review following the executive order.[aside postID=news_12049014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose1_ENLARGED.jpg']“As we implement the order, we will review all signs in the park as well as all the public input we receive about the signs,” Winchell told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">The “History Under Construction” webpage \u003c/a>at \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">nps.gov\u003c/a>, with full details of the exhibit and the additions made, is still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, a former park ranger at Muir Woods who worked on the 2021 sticky notes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php\">told SFGate\u003c/a> that to her, “the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t remove anything,” Villano said. “It just layered in what had been missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National park staff have made tremendous strides in recent decades, teaching the facts about difficult topics like slavery, racism and climate change,” NPCA’s Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If some of these proposed changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are some parks staff complying with Trump’s executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“If park staff don’t comply with this directive, they may lose their jobs,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">fired over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan \u003c/a>to cut federal spending. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers in March\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to NPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that time, the White House has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">threatened deep cuts\u003c/a> to national parks budgets, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">some staff say has created a cloud of uncertainty in the department and at parks all over the country.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies like these do not help Park Service staff protect these incredible places,” Spears said. “The administration is making their jobs harder and killing their morale, at a time when Park Service staff numbers dwindle near historic lows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other parks doing in light of the executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation reports that Muir Woods appears to be the first park to have actually changed or removed its signage ahead of the White House deadline, but employees at other parks across the country have also flagged exhibits for their “inappropriate” language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes: exhibits naming slave owners and describing violence against enslaved people at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cari/index.htm\">Cane River Creole National Historical Park\u003c/a> in Louisiana; signs discussing sea level rise and erosion at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm\">Cape Hatteras National Seashore\u003c/a> in North Carolina; and wording on the U.S. government’s removal and imprisonment of Native Americans at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm\">Castillo de San Marcos National Monument\u003c/a> in Florida, the National Parks Conservation Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate information,” Spears said. “The public can handle the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> in Marin County have removed signage that spotlighted Indigenous history, women’s contributions to the park and instances of racism in the space’s history — following \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">an executive order from President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 27 executive order criticized materials, monuments and signage within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction — which includes national parks — that “rewrite our Nation’s history” and “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/07/public-lands-women-monuments-erasure/\">the\u003cem> 19th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">the\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>POLITICO\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/burgum-asked-park-rangers-to-flag-negative-us-history-theyre-delivering/\">\u003cem>E&E News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the White House directed national parks staff to flag any signage that could violate the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” Trump wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/8858-new-order-threatens-park-service-s-efforts-to-protect-and-explore-american\">The Trump administration\u003c/a> also instructed staff at national parks to publicly post signs with QR codes inviting visitors to themselves report any signage they found to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order then gave parks a deadline: By mid-July, they 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