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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he ancient trees of Big Basin Redwoods State Park, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains, are some of the tallest living things on the planet. A quarter of a million visitors from around the world usually visit this place every year — that was, until August 2020, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837196/after-fire-a-charred-big-basin-looks-to-the-future-and-new-life\">the massive CZU Lightning Complex wildfire ripped through the forest\u003c/a>, scorching 97% of the park’s 22,500 acres and forcing its closure to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly two years since, Big Basin has been the site of a mammoth cleanup and recovery operation. And now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1104\">a limited reopening of the park will finally take place this week\u003c/a> — starting Friday, July 22, the public can once more walk under some of these towering old-growth redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But safely reopening even a small section of the park is no mean feat, even after 23 months of intense recovery work and preparation. And those tasked with reopening Big Basin’s gates must navigate often-complex, intertwining needs, from Indigenous tribal partners working to regain meaningful access to ancestral lands, to park visitors eager to hike and bike under the big trees again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And against a backdrop of California’s new wildfire reality, the park’s reopening provides a look at how, after such destruction, a place like Big Basin could seize the chance for a truly different kind of rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919876 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/001_KQED_BigBasin_09102020-SMALLER.gif\" alt=\"The image dissolves from a road surrounded by blackened and brown trees, with two park officials walking down it away from the camera, into an image showing that same round surrounded by green banks and those same trees, still blackened by fire by sprouting countless bright green shoots.\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A before-and-after GIF showing the same road in Big Basin in September 2020, after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, and in May 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A reopened park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the July 22 limited reopening, the resolute, repeated message from park officials is that visiting Big Basin will be different than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest changes to the visitor experience is the introduction of a day-use reservation system for parking. There’ll be no parking available within Big Basin without a reservation, and no possibility of overnight stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-five spaces per day, for $8 each, will become available up to 60 days in advance, with a limited number of additional reservations released three days before. No day-of, drive-up entry will be available, and parks officials warn reservations will almost certainly fill up several weeks in advance. (\u003ca href=\"https://thatsmypark.org/parks-and-beaches/big-basin-redwoods-state-park/\">Make a day-use reservation for Big Basin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=reservebigbasin@thatsmypark.org&ctz=America/Los_Angeles\">see the schedule of available parking spots at Big Basin\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919850\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin soaring into a blue sky, shot from below at a steep angle. There is bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth emerges at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The way to visit Big Basin from July 22 onward without a parking reservation will be on foot or by bicycle, accessible via drop-off or by taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.scmtd.com/en/routes/20202/35\">Santa Cruz Metro Bus Route 35, which will run four trips serving Big Basin on weekends only\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major change is the amount of the park that’ll be accessible to visitors. The majority of this vast space will remain closed to the public, owing to the innumerable hazards that fire-damaged trees and infrastructure still pose throughout the park. This means visitors will only be able to explore a small amount of Big Basin, including the Redwood Loop trail and access to about 18 miles of fire roads near the historic park core. Bikes will be allowed on some of these fire roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1529948093537406976\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reopening of Big Basin also brings the reopening of Highway 236, which runs through the park. Even without a day-use reservation, motorists may once again use the highway to travel through the park. Although you won’t be able to stop or park anywhere along the way, it’s a way to get a glimpse of Big Basin and see the forest’s recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A survival story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Photographs from the days after the CZU fire show \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837196/after-fire-a-charred-big-basin-looks-to-the-future-and-new-life\">a scorched, smoky landscape that’s almost alien-looking\u003c/a>. Today, Big Basin once again looks very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving into the park for the first time since the fire, it’s impossible not to be struck by the charring on the trunks of these redwoods. But all around, sprouting from the jet-black trunks and branches is bright green regrowth — so vivid against the black of the burns that it looks like the work of a camera filter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the redwoods have survived,” says California State Parks Santa Cruz District Superintendent Chris Spohrer, adding that this regeneration is “a remarkable thing that redwoods can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919846 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Spohrer, an older man who presents as white, stands in front of fire-blackened redwoods that have much green foliage growing off them. He is wearing a California State Parks uniform of a green jacket with California state seal on the arm, and a wide-brimmed yellow hat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The few redwoods that did fall during the fire — or were so damaged and hazardous that they had to be removed afterward — are almost all being repurposed as lumber products throughout Big Basin: as decking on which visitors can walk, and as split-rail fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trees that didn’t survive the CZU fire were mainly Douglas firs, which lack the resilience to fire that redwoods have. But amid the dead firs, there’s regrowth all around in Big Basin. In the understory, the above-ground trunks of trees such as live oaks and madrones may be visibly dead, but their bases are sprouting and regenerating from their roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a fire-follower shrub, ceanothus (also called California lilac) has come back “in abundance” across the forest floor — something Spohrer calls “part of the succession of the forest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing recovery and reopening of Big Basin is supported by a massive fundraising drive by the \u003ca href=\"https://sempervirens.org/\">Sempervirens Fund\u003c/a> — California’s oldest land trust, established in 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded by a handful of redwoods enthusiasts in the Santa Cruz mountains, the Sempervirens Fund was responsible for lobbying for the creation of Big Basin itself in 1902, making it California’s very first state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow digger performs cleanup in Big Basin in the middle of a redwood grove, where blackened tree trunks have bright green foliage growing off them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction crew works near the former headquarters at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Barth, Sempervirens’ executive director, knows that for those people who loved visiting Big Basin, that first trip back might be emotional — and also jarring to see how the place they remembered has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to see these charred trunks,” says Barth, but “please remember that most of those trees are very much alive, and this is part of a natural process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11837196 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44851_043_KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut.jpg']“It’s really hard to kill a redwood — really hard. And that’s a great thing. It’s why they live thousands and thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These forests are meant to burn. And in some ways the fire has been, for much of the forest, a very good thing. And so while it’s tremendously sad that the way you remembered it is not the way it’s going to be, the future is bright for this forest. This is what nature wants — and needs — to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to surrender to the fact that we’re on nature’s timeline, and take heart in the resilience and the greenery that you’re going to see when you’re here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tribal partnership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Basin wants to be, as Spohrer puts it, “a model in the future of how you can manage old-growth redwood in the face of a changing climate.” But officials want to rebuild the park in other ways — and they make frequent reference to the deep collaboration between California State Parks and Big Basin’s tribal partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU fire, and the reimagining of Big Basin it forced, has been “an opportunity to get back to the table, to think about the entirety of a park plan and have our tribal partners with us during that time,” says Spohrer, with “a real focus on active stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919853 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin soaring into a blue sky, shot from below at a steep angle. There is bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth can be seen through a burned redwood tree at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those tribal partners include the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a group whose members are the descendants of the Indigenous peoples whose villages and territories fell “under \u003ca href=\"https://amahmutsun.org/history\">the sphere of influence of Missions San Juan Bautista (Mutsun) and Santa Cruz (Awaswas)\u003c/a> during the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries,” according to the tribe’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amah Mutsun’s traditional territory encompasses some or all of what are called San Benito, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties today. And Big Basin itself is in the traditional tribal territory of the Awaswas people, explains Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no living survivors of the Awaswas people. It’s for that reason, says Lopez, that the Amah Mutsun “feel that it’s very important that we ensure that their lands are spoken for. That the Awaswas ancestors are remembered and never forgotten. And that’s why we work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/our-vision\">the Amah Mutsun formally established their Land Trust\u003c/a>, a vehicle by which the tribal band pursues the conservation and restoration of Indigenous resources — both natural and cultural — within these traditional territories, to steward these lands and restore historic ecological practices. (The Amah Mutsun Land Trust was also supported and sponsored in its genesis by the Sempervirens Fund.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this same ethos that Lopez and the Amah Mutsun want to bring to Big Basin, says Lopez: “to bring back the traditional ways of stewarding and managing these lands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concrete ecological asks made by the Amah Mutsun include the management of tree volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maximizing tree growth on land like this “does not make a healthy forest,” says Lopez, who is advocating to reduce the number of trees to increase sunlight on the forest floor: “That right there is really important to take care of the insects, the birds, the four-legged who depend on that landscape there for their foods, and their materials — for their survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related is the Amah Mutsun’s request to increase the amount of open meadow within the park, of the kind historically stewarded by Indigenous people there. Such open meadowland was “really important to ensure the biodiversity within the forest,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Big Basin’s natural recovery after the CZU fire provides a glimpse of that sort of change: wildflowers in bloom, like violets, recently carpeted areas of the forest floor. These are “things that you wouldn’t necessarily have seen as much under the full canopy cover prior to the fire,” Spohrer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding for wildfire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Basin lost numerous historic visitor buildings in the fire, many of which had been established deep within the forest, like the camp store and the nature museum. Now, a lesser-known area of Big Basin called Saddle Mountain — a place Spohrer calls “something that you kind of drove by on your way down into the headquarters” previously — will soon become the home of a new welcome base, with visitor services, parking and a shuttle to take people into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919851 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A grey-colored stone fireplace and chimney stand in the middle of a redwood grove, with chainlink fencing around it and bright green foliage growing below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fireplace and chimney remain from the Old Lodge at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Relocating that infrastructure to this new space isn’t just about making the most of a spot that was less harmed by the CZU fire. It’s about moving away from a parks model that places buildings in ancient old-growth redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several reasons for this shift at Big Basin. For visitors, the park’s decision not to rebuild the structures that burned among the redwoods in 2020 will “allow the ancient forests to be a place where people can have a really natural experience in that forest,” says Spohrer. Officials also don’t want to “reestablish structures in a place where it’s nearly impossible to defend them,” says Spohrer. “That is not something we want to repeat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason for moving away from pairing old-growth trees with buildings is still visibly scorched onto the forest floor at Big Basin where those visitor structures once stood — namely, the ferocity with which human-made structures can burn. Not only is it “nearly impossible to protect structures in an environment like this,” says Spohrer, but several of the old-growth redwoods that stretched above those historic buildings were affected greatly by the intensity of the structure fires below them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the optimism of planning for Big Basin’s future is the ever-present need to safeguard against the next big fire. Prescribed burning is a large part of that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin, with bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks. One trunk in the foreground has no foliage, and is leaning at an angle. Bright green grass grows below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth emerges at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For a healthy forest for future generations, we have to really consider the idea of expanding prescribed fire,” says Spohrer. “This park has had a long history of prescribed fire to protect and enhance old growth, but we have to upscale that and we have to think bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before colonization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\">prescribed fire was a key part of Indigenous stewardship\u003c/a> of California’s lands. Tribes held annual controlled burns to clear out underbrush and to encourage the new growth of plants in a managed way. When those Indigenous communities were forcibly removed from their lands by colonizers, who also banned religious ceremonies, this cultural burning was severely throttled. Both California and federal authorities instead pursued a policy of swiftly extinguishing wildfires — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835084/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">an approach that is only just beginning to be reversed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a history of prescribed fire around Yosemite National Park’s iconic Mariposa Grove — a group of giant, ancient sequoias in the park — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979849/decades-of-good-fires-save-yosemites-iconic-grove-of-ancient-sequoia-trees\">has been hailed as an instrumental force in defending those trees against the Washburn Fire\u003c/a>. Prescribed burns reduced forest fuels in the area, and permitted the fire to move through the grove without inflicting damage on the sequoias themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This need for “good fire” has affected every aspect of the Big Basin redesign, Spohrer says: “By being selective and thoughtful about where we place infrastructure, whether it’s buildings or it’s trails or anything that’s the built environment, we can set ourselves up for the ability to do successful prescribed burning in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Restoring the sacredness to the ground’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I think when you come into this park now as it is even today [post-fire], you can start to experience what this forest felt like prior to when it started being more developed,” says Spohrer, who calls this “a significant change” that’s “been influenced by our tribal partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this kind of physical evolution isn’t just about changing the way Big Basin looks and feels for the general public visitor base. For Lopez, it’s also about being clear on the kind of unique, special access and presence that the Amah Mutsun want, and need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, meaningful access to Big Basin for the region’s Indigenous people is key — not temporary stints, or brief allowances in the forest, but the kind of physical and spiritual presence that deepens connection to the land. And the active stewardship that Big Basin officials speak about starts, “first and foremost,” he says, “with restoring the sacredness to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One aspect of this access, Lopez says, is about enabling ceremony: designating a place to gather in the forest, a place to hold tribal meetings. There’s also discussion of what kind of physical buildings could be built at Big Basin for ceremonial purposes, such as a roundhouse that could be used “not just by the Amah Mutsun, but by multiple tribes,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Grey-colored steps with railings on either side, shot from below, with redwoods behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steps lead to what once was the Headquarters Administration Building at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just as with the Amah Mutsun’s Land Trust, research into the land and Indigenous practices once used there is a key concern for the tribal group when it comes to Big Basin — as is how such research requires physical access. The tribal band’s members want “to study how our ancestors stewarded and managed and lived in the forest,” explains Lopez. “What were their food sources? Where did they fish? What were their trade routes? What were the places of the rites of passage or coming-of-age ceremonies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez is also keen to include concrete specifics in the conversations around Indigenous partnership in Big Basin’s future — the kinds of granular details that can often get left out of revisioning plans. He says the Amah Mutsun want to work with park officials to find a way for tribal members “that are stewarding Mother Earth and taking care of it in the traditional Indigenous ways” to be financially compensated for their work, rather than having to do it for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez has spoken in previous years about how \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2012/12/21/healing-ceremonies-recall-california-mission-heritage/\">many of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band can no longer afford to live in their ancestral territories\u003c/a>, instead having to relocate to areas like the Central Valley. Noting that several tribal members would be “traveling from great distances” to do work in Big Basin, Lopez says, “This should be compensated at a fair rate that is equivalent to others who steward the lands as well, for other organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to conversations between California park authorities and tribal representatives, “we’re not shy,” says Lopez. “And that’s based on the relationship and the trust that we have so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919874 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/001_KQED_BigBasin_09102020-1.gif\" alt=\"An image of a fire-blackened redwood stump -- taken in 2020 after the fire, with brown scorched foliage all around -- dissolves into a more recent image of the same tree, still darkened with burns but surrounded by bright green foliage above and below.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A before-and-after GIF showing the same redwood grove in Big Basin in September 2020, after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, and in May 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the Amah Mutsun, meaningful access to Big Basin also means California State Parks acknowledging tribal members as being the ones with “decision-making authority on everything related to our culture,” says Lopez. Yes, the group could “ask to hold a ceremony” in Big Basin, he notes — and park officials could grant or deny that request. But this kind of formality around ceremonial gathering within the park — wherein the Amah Mutsun aren’t able to steer the process themselves, for what could potentially be multiday events — could then plunge tribal members into a world of event-planning bureaucracy, and a permit process that covers every aspect from crowd numbers and parking to trash cans and bathrooms, says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what we want. We want the tribal people to have those kinds of decision-making authorities,” he says. “And that’s the voice that we will be asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Truth telling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Our creation stories of multiple tribes tell us a Creator gave us the responsibility to take care of Mother Earth and all living things,” says Lopez. “Because this responsibility was given to us by Creator, we are the only ones that have the moral authority — a moral obligation to take care of these lands. And so that’s what we want to do: We want to work with these lands to fulfill our obligation to the Awaswas, and to Creator.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Valentin Lopez, chair, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\"]‘If we’re ever going to have a healthy relationship with the state of California, a healthy relationship with land trusts, open space districts … parks, etc., they have to acknowledge and understand the history of our area — the true history, not the fabricated history.’[/pullquote]That moral obligation is one from which California’s Indigenous communities have been physically obstructed for several centuries. The Amah Mutsun’s work with Big Basin officials comes as many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/535779/land-back-the-indigenous-fight-to-reclaim-stolen-lands\">Indigenous communities across the United States continue to advocate for the landback movement\u003c/a>, and for the return of lands to the Native stewardship they were forcibly wrested from. It’s a history and a context Lopez wants to make clear — because “within our territory, every inch of land was stolen from us — every inch of the counties that make up the greater Bay Area,” he says. “And all of California, for that matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919848\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A green and black construction vehicle sits among a brown pile of lumber, against a backdrop of redwood trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of lumber sit near burned redwood trees with new growth at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the tribal band has “a strong relationship with [California] State Parks” forged through steady progress and trust-building, Lopez says that “if we’re ever going to have a healthy relationship with the state of California, a healthy relationship with land trusts, open space districts, city/county parks, etc., they have to acknowledge and understand the history of our area — the true history, not the fabricated history, that’s told in schools and other institutions like state parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interpretation and documentation — that is, whose histories get told within a place like Big Basin, and whose voices are amplified — is a common theme from park authorities in discussions about the park’s future. “We’re trying to tell more inclusive stories,” says Spohrer, adding “there’s going to be … more focus on the history of stewardship here from Native people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’ve really encouraged — and that I’m really pleased to see Parks embrace — is the idea that the interpretive elements here at Big Basin should touch upon every group of humanity that has touched this landscape,” says Barth, the Sempervirens Fund CEO. “And it’s a far more diverse story and diverse group of people than has traditionally been represented here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, these corrective measures can’t come soon enough. Of California State Parks interpretation in general, “you read the history that’s on those boards or their interpretive signs and stuff like that — you know, the older ones, they don’t say a darn thing about Indigenous people,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like the land was cleared and they just came in and claimed it, you know? And this was one of the most populated areas in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez and the Amah Mutsun, the deep wounds of California’s history of genocide and cultural erasure targeted at the state’s Native American communities make the need to return Big Basin in some way to Indigenous stewardship all the more urgent — for restitution, and for healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of brutality, an incredible amount of brutality. And that has to be acknowledged. And perpetrators such as the state of California, they have to acknowledge their responsibility for that violence,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to understand that for them to heal as a perpetrator, they need to respect the Indigenous people and they need to work with us to help us restore our culture. To restore our spirituality. To restore our environments. To restore our Indigenous knowledge. And to restore our identities and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s very difficult for non-Indigenous people to understand what we’re asking for, or what we need,” stresses Lopez. “Or to understand how to have a relationship with the tribe … But we appreciate them taking the time to try and understand — to listen, to learn. But for us to keep the conversations going, what we’re looking for is a healthy relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot have a healthy relationship if they think that this land is theirs because they bought it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The fact that two years on, the majority of the park will still remain inaccessible to the public upon reopening is a testament to the devastating nature of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire and the enormity of the task facing park authorities to make this land safe for the public again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spohrer says that, in the name of reopening Big Basin, park authorities continue to “focus on elements that we can do more quickly, along with opening up the trails.” For example, restoring the backcountry trails in the wilderness of Big Basin will be a far longer process, he warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long haul,” says Spohrer, “a tough climb out from a devastating fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another much-loved element of Big Basin lost to the 2020 fire were the four campgrounds. Spohrer says that officials’ “overarching principle” is to “try and retain the amount of camping recreation that we had in the park prior to the fire.” But he notes that of all the elements of Big Basin’s return, camping is one of the ones that will take the longest because of the sheer amount of infrastructure camping facilities demand — and that it’ll be several years until campers can return to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Big Basin staff, talk of rebuilding the campgrounds comes with particularly raw memories of the campground evacuation that took place when the flames of the CZU fire began to become visible on the horizon: “a flaming front,” as Spohrer puts it, that “moved extremely rapidly” toward the campers gathered below. That night in August 2020, the campgrounds were full with summer vacationers, who were all successfully evacuated from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919845 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a California State Parks uniform and a yellow wide-brimmed hat turns away from the camera to point at the redwoods behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was remarkable how quickly our staff was able to respond and to successfully get everybody out without loss of life,” says Spohrer. But those same staff who scrambled to evacuate campers lived close by, in park housing that had stood in Big Basin since the 1950s, and they had no time to go back and save their own possessions. Six of the seven homes burned to the ground, and “they and their families pretty much lost everything,” Spohrer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in this region that was affected by the fire has been in a recovery mode,” he says. “It takes its toll for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, it’s possible to see Big Basin as the inaugural test case for how a beloved California land rebirths itself after fire. What choices will that land’s most recent stewards make — and whose voices and needs are brought to the table, perhaps for the first time? What could it look like to work with fire, not against it, and remake a place not for newness, but in the spirit of intentional return to older ways?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919856\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919856 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blackened fallen redwood tree trunk lies in a bright green meadow. Yellow wildflowers are in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tall grass and wildflowers grow in a meadow at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel confident that we can find ways to reach agreements to allow Indigenous people to once again come back to these lands, and to take care of them in the traditional ways, and to restore sacredness to these grounds,” says Lopez. “And to have a voice in how Big Basin — and those lands of Big Basin — are managed and stewarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s going to take time,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California wildfires get bigger and hotter, and more national and state parks potentially lie in fire’s path, these are choices those places might have to make soon, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Spohrer acknowledges, at Big Basin “we are — either fortunately, or unfortunately — getting to be the first to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he ancient trees of Big Basin Redwoods State Park, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains, are some of the tallest living things on the planet. A quarter of a million visitors from around the world usually visit this place every year — that was, until August 2020, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837196/after-fire-a-charred-big-basin-looks-to-the-future-and-new-life\">the massive CZU Lightning Complex wildfire ripped through the forest\u003c/a>, scorching 97% of the park’s 22,500 acres and forcing its closure to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly two years since, Big Basin has been the site of a mammoth cleanup and recovery operation. And now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1104\">a limited reopening of the park will finally take place this week\u003c/a> — starting Friday, July 22, the public can once more walk under some of these towering old-growth redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But safely reopening even a small section of the park is no mean feat, even after 23 months of intense recovery work and preparation. And those tasked with reopening Big Basin’s gates must navigate often-complex, intertwining needs, from Indigenous tribal partners working to regain meaningful access to ancestral lands, to park visitors eager to hike and bike under the big trees again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And against a backdrop of California’s new wildfire reality, the park’s reopening provides a look at how, after such destruction, a place like Big Basin could seize the chance for a truly different kind of rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919876 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/001_KQED_BigBasin_09102020-SMALLER.gif\" alt=\"The image dissolves from a road surrounded by blackened and brown trees, with two park officials walking down it away from the camera, into an image showing that same round surrounded by green banks and those same trees, still blackened by fire by sprouting countless bright green shoots.\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A before-and-after GIF showing the same road in Big Basin in September 2020, after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, and in May 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A reopened park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the July 22 limited reopening, the resolute, repeated message from park officials is that visiting Big Basin will be different than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest changes to the visitor experience is the introduction of a day-use reservation system for parking. There’ll be no parking available within Big Basin without a reservation, and no possibility of overnight stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-five spaces per day, for $8 each, will become available up to 60 days in advance, with a limited number of additional reservations released three days before. No day-of, drive-up entry will be available, and parks officials warn reservations will almost certainly fill up several weeks in advance. (\u003ca href=\"https://thatsmypark.org/parks-and-beaches/big-basin-redwoods-state-park/\">Make a day-use reservation for Big Basin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=reservebigbasin@thatsmypark.org&ctz=America/Los_Angeles\">see the schedule of available parking spots at Big Basin\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919850\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin soaring into a blue sky, shot from below at a steep angle. There is bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56348_033_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth emerges at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The way to visit Big Basin from July 22 onward without a parking reservation will be on foot or by bicycle, accessible via drop-off or by taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.scmtd.com/en/routes/20202/35\">Santa Cruz Metro Bus Route 35, which will run four trips serving Big Basin on weekends only\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major change is the amount of the park that’ll be accessible to visitors. The majority of this vast space will remain closed to the public, owing to the innumerable hazards that fire-damaged trees and infrastructure still pose throughout the park. This means visitors will only be able to explore a small amount of Big Basin, including the Redwood Loop trail and access to about 18 miles of fire roads near the historic park core. Bikes will be allowed on some of these fire roads.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The reopening of Big Basin also brings the reopening of Highway 236, which runs through the park. Even without a day-use reservation, motorists may once again use the highway to travel through the park. Although you won’t be able to stop or park anywhere along the way, it’s a way to get a glimpse of Big Basin and see the forest’s recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A survival story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Photographs from the days after the CZU fire show \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837196/after-fire-a-charred-big-basin-looks-to-the-future-and-new-life\">a scorched, smoky landscape that’s almost alien-looking\u003c/a>. Today, Big Basin once again looks very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving into the park for the first time since the fire, it’s impossible not to be struck by the charring on the trunks of these redwoods. But all around, sprouting from the jet-black trunks and branches is bright green regrowth — so vivid against the black of the burns that it looks like the work of a camera filter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the redwoods have survived,” says California State Parks Santa Cruz District Superintendent Chris Spohrer, adding that this regeneration is “a remarkable thing that redwoods can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919846 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Spohrer, an older man who presents as white, stands in front of fire-blackened redwoods that have much green foliage growing off them. He is wearing a California State Parks uniform of a green jacket with California state seal on the arm, and a wide-brimmed yellow hat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56329_015_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The few redwoods that did fall during the fire — or were so damaged and hazardous that they had to be removed afterward — are almost all being repurposed as lumber products throughout Big Basin: as decking on which visitors can walk, and as split-rail fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trees that didn’t survive the CZU fire were mainly Douglas firs, which lack the resilience to fire that redwoods have. But amid the dead firs, there’s regrowth all around in Big Basin. In the understory, the above-ground trunks of trees such as live oaks and madrones may be visibly dead, but their bases are sprouting and regenerating from their roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a fire-follower shrub, ceanothus (also called California lilac) has come back “in abundance” across the forest floor — something Spohrer calls “part of the succession of the forest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing recovery and reopening of Big Basin is supported by a massive fundraising drive by the \u003ca href=\"https://sempervirens.org/\">Sempervirens Fund\u003c/a> — California’s oldest land trust, established in 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded by a handful of redwoods enthusiasts in the Santa Cruz mountains, the Sempervirens Fund was responsible for lobbying for the creation of Big Basin itself in 1902, making it California’s very first state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow digger performs cleanup in Big Basin in the middle of a redwood grove, where blackened tree trunks have bright green foliage growing off them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56344_030_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction crew works near the former headquarters at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Barth, Sempervirens’ executive director, knows that for those people who loved visiting Big Basin, that first trip back might be emotional — and also jarring to see how the place they remembered has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to see these charred trunks,” says Barth, but “please remember that most of those trees are very much alive, and this is part of a natural process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s really hard to kill a redwood — really hard. And that’s a great thing. It’s why they live thousands and thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These forests are meant to burn. And in some ways the fire has been, for much of the forest, a very good thing. And so while it’s tremendously sad that the way you remembered it is not the way it’s going to be, the future is bright for this forest. This is what nature wants — and needs — to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to surrender to the fact that we’re on nature’s timeline, and take heart in the resilience and the greenery that you’re going to see when you’re here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tribal partnership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Basin wants to be, as Spohrer puts it, “a model in the future of how you can manage old-growth redwood in the face of a changing climate.” But officials want to rebuild the park in other ways — and they make frequent reference to the deep collaboration between California State Parks and Big Basin’s tribal partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU fire, and the reimagining of Big Basin it forced, has been “an opportunity to get back to the table, to think about the entirety of a park plan and have our tribal partners with us during that time,” says Spohrer, with “a real focus on active stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919853 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin soaring into a blue sky, shot from below at a steep angle. There is bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56353_039_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth can be seen through a burned redwood tree at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those tribal partners include the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a group whose members are the descendants of the Indigenous peoples whose villages and territories fell “under \u003ca href=\"https://amahmutsun.org/history\">the sphere of influence of Missions San Juan Bautista (Mutsun) and Santa Cruz (Awaswas)\u003c/a> during the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries,” according to the tribe’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amah Mutsun’s traditional territory encompasses some or all of what are called San Benito, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties today. And Big Basin itself is in the traditional tribal territory of the Awaswas people, explains Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no living survivors of the Awaswas people. It’s for that reason, says Lopez, that the Amah Mutsun “feel that it’s very important that we ensure that their lands are spoken for. That the Awaswas ancestors are remembered and never forgotten. And that’s why we work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/our-vision\">the Amah Mutsun formally established their Land Trust\u003c/a>, a vehicle by which the tribal band pursues the conservation and restoration of Indigenous resources — both natural and cultural — within these traditional territories, to steward these lands and restore historic ecological practices. (The Amah Mutsun Land Trust was also supported and sponsored in its genesis by the Sempervirens Fund.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this same ethos that Lopez and the Amah Mutsun want to bring to Big Basin, says Lopez: “to bring back the traditional ways of stewarding and managing these lands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concrete ecological asks made by the Amah Mutsun include the management of tree volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maximizing tree growth on land like this “does not make a healthy forest,” says Lopez, who is advocating to reduce the number of trees to increase sunlight on the forest floor: “That right there is really important to take care of the insects, the birds, the four-legged who depend on that landscape there for their foods, and their materials — for their survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related is the Amah Mutsun’s request to increase the amount of open meadow within the park, of the kind historically stewarded by Indigenous people there. Such open meadowland was “really important to ensure the biodiversity within the forest,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Big Basin’s natural recovery after the CZU fire provides a glimpse of that sort of change: wildflowers in bloom, like violets, recently carpeted areas of the forest floor. These are “things that you wouldn’t necessarily have seen as much under the full canopy cover prior to the fire,” Spohrer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding for wildfire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Basin lost numerous historic visitor buildings in the fire, many of which had been established deep within the forest, like the camp store and the nature museum. Now, a lesser-known area of Big Basin called Saddle Mountain — a place Spohrer calls “something that you kind of drove by on your way down into the headquarters” previously — will soon become the home of a new welcome base, with visitor services, parking and a shuttle to take people into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919851 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A grey-colored stone fireplace and chimney stand in the middle of a redwood grove, with chainlink fencing around it and bright green foliage growing below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56351_035_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fireplace and chimney remain from the Old Lodge at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Relocating that infrastructure to this new space isn’t just about making the most of a spot that was less harmed by the CZU fire. It’s about moving away from a parks model that places buildings in ancient old-growth redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several reasons for this shift at Big Basin. For visitors, the park’s decision not to rebuild the structures that burned among the redwoods in 2020 will “allow the ancient forests to be a place where people can have a really natural experience in that forest,” says Spohrer. Officials also don’t want to “reestablish structures in a place where it’s nearly impossible to defend them,” says Spohrer. “That is not something we want to repeat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason for moving away from pairing old-growth trees with buildings is still visibly scorched onto the forest floor at Big Basin where those visitor structures once stood — namely, the ferocity with which human-made structures can burn. Not only is it “nearly impossible to protect structures in an environment like this,” says Spohrer, but several of the old-growth redwoods that stretched above those historic buildings were affected greatly by the intensity of the structure fires below them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the optimism of planning for Big Basin’s future is the ever-present need to safeguard against the next big fire. Prescribed burning is a large part of that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Fire-scarred redwoods at Big Basin, with bright green foliage growing on the branchless black trunks. One trunk in the foreground has no foliage, and is leaning at an angle. Bright green grass grows below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56355_042_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New growth emerges at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For a healthy forest for future generations, we have to really consider the idea of expanding prescribed fire,” says Spohrer. “This park has had a long history of prescribed fire to protect and enhance old growth, but we have to upscale that and we have to think bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before colonization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\">prescribed fire was a key part of Indigenous stewardship\u003c/a> of California’s lands. Tribes held annual controlled burns to clear out underbrush and to encourage the new growth of plants in a managed way. When those Indigenous communities were forcibly removed from their lands by colonizers, who also banned religious ceremonies, this cultural burning was severely throttled. Both California and federal authorities instead pursued a policy of swiftly extinguishing wildfires — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835084/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">an approach that is only just beginning to be reversed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a history of prescribed fire around Yosemite National Park’s iconic Mariposa Grove — a group of giant, ancient sequoias in the park — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979849/decades-of-good-fires-save-yosemites-iconic-grove-of-ancient-sequoia-trees\">has been hailed as an instrumental force in defending those trees against the Washburn Fire\u003c/a>. Prescribed burns reduced forest fuels in the area, and permitted the fire to move through the grove without inflicting damage on the sequoias themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This need for “good fire” has affected every aspect of the Big Basin redesign, Spohrer says: “By being selective and thoughtful about where we place infrastructure, whether it’s buildings or it’s trails or anything that’s the built environment, we can set ourselves up for the ability to do successful prescribed burning in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Restoring the sacredness to the ground’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I think when you come into this park now as it is even today [post-fire], you can start to experience what this forest felt like prior to when it started being more developed,” says Spohrer, who calls this “a significant change” that’s “been influenced by our tribal partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this kind of physical evolution isn’t just about changing the way Big Basin looks and feels for the general public visitor base. For Lopez, it’s also about being clear on the kind of unique, special access and presence that the Amah Mutsun want, and need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, meaningful access to Big Basin for the region’s Indigenous people is key — not temporary stints, or brief allowances in the forest, but the kind of physical and spiritual presence that deepens connection to the land. And the active stewardship that Big Basin officials speak about starts, “first and foremost,” he says, “with restoring the sacredness to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One aspect of this access, Lopez says, is about enabling ceremony: designating a place to gather in the forest, a place to hold tribal meetings. There’s also discussion of what kind of physical buildings could be built at Big Basin for ceremonial purposes, such as a roundhouse that could be used “not just by the Amah Mutsun, but by multiple tribes,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Grey-colored steps with railings on either side, shot from below, with redwoods behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56383_060_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steps lead to what once was the Headquarters Administration Building at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just as with the Amah Mutsun’s Land Trust, research into the land and Indigenous practices once used there is a key concern for the tribal group when it comes to Big Basin — as is how such research requires physical access. The tribal band’s members want “to study how our ancestors stewarded and managed and lived in the forest,” explains Lopez. “What were their food sources? Where did they fish? What were their trade routes? What were the places of the rites of passage or coming-of-age ceremonies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez is also keen to include concrete specifics in the conversations around Indigenous partnership in Big Basin’s future — the kinds of granular details that can often get left out of revisioning plans. He says the Amah Mutsun want to work with park officials to find a way for tribal members “that are stewarding Mother Earth and taking care of it in the traditional Indigenous ways” to be financially compensated for their work, rather than having to do it for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez has spoken in previous years about how \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2012/12/21/healing-ceremonies-recall-california-mission-heritage/\">many of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band can no longer afford to live in their ancestral territories\u003c/a>, instead having to relocate to areas like the Central Valley. Noting that several tribal members would be “traveling from great distances” to do work in Big Basin, Lopez says, “This should be compensated at a fair rate that is equivalent to others who steward the lands as well, for other organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to conversations between California park authorities and tribal representatives, “we’re not shy,” says Lopez. “And that’s based on the relationship and the trust that we have so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919874 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/001_KQED_BigBasin_09102020-1.gif\" alt=\"An image of a fire-blackened redwood stump -- taken in 2020 after the fire, with brown scorched foliage all around -- dissolves into a more recent image of the same tree, still darkened with burns but surrounded by bright green foliage above and below.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A before-and-after GIF showing the same redwood grove in Big Basin in September 2020, after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, and in May 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the Amah Mutsun, meaningful access to Big Basin also means California State Parks acknowledging tribal members as being the ones with “decision-making authority on everything related to our culture,” says Lopez. Yes, the group could “ask to hold a ceremony” in Big Basin, he notes — and park officials could grant or deny that request. But this kind of formality around ceremonial gathering within the park — wherein the Amah Mutsun aren’t able to steer the process themselves, for what could potentially be multiday events — could then plunge tribal members into a world of event-planning bureaucracy, and a permit process that covers every aspect from crowd numbers and parking to trash cans and bathrooms, says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what we want. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That moral obligation is one from which California’s Indigenous communities have been physically obstructed for several centuries. The Amah Mutsun’s work with Big Basin officials comes as many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/535779/land-back-the-indigenous-fight-to-reclaim-stolen-lands\">Indigenous communities across the United States continue to advocate for the landback movement\u003c/a>, and for the return of lands to the Native stewardship they were forcibly wrested from. It’s a history and a context Lopez wants to make clear — because “within our territory, every inch of land was stolen from us — every inch of the counties that make up the greater Bay Area,” he says. “And all of California, for that matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919848\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A green and black construction vehicle sits among a brown pile of lumber, against a backdrop of redwood trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56341_028_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of lumber sit near burned redwood trees with new growth at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the tribal band has “a strong relationship with [California] State Parks” forged through steady progress and trust-building, Lopez says that “if we’re ever going to have a healthy relationship with the state of California, a healthy relationship with land trusts, open space districts, city/county parks, etc., they have to acknowledge and understand the history of our area — the true history, not the fabricated history, that’s told in schools and other institutions like state parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interpretation and documentation — that is, whose histories get told within a place like Big Basin, and whose voices are amplified — is a common theme from park authorities in discussions about the park’s future. “We’re trying to tell more inclusive stories,” says Spohrer, adding “there’s going to be … more focus on the history of stewardship here from Native people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’ve really encouraged — and that I’m really pleased to see Parks embrace — is the idea that the interpretive elements here at Big Basin should touch upon every group of humanity that has touched this landscape,” says Barth, the Sempervirens Fund CEO. “And it’s a far more diverse story and diverse group of people than has traditionally been represented here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, these corrective measures can’t come soon enough. Of California State Parks interpretation in general, “you read the history that’s on those boards or their interpretive signs and stuff like that — you know, the older ones, they don’t say a darn thing about Indigenous people,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like the land was cleared and they just came in and claimed it, you know? And this was one of the most populated areas in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez and the Amah Mutsun, the deep wounds of California’s history of genocide and cultural erasure targeted at the state’s Native American communities make the need to return Big Basin in some way to Indigenous stewardship all the more urgent — for restitution, and for healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of brutality, an incredible amount of brutality. And that has to be acknowledged. And perpetrators such as the state of California, they have to acknowledge their responsibility for that violence,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to understand that for them to heal as a perpetrator, they need to respect the Indigenous people and they need to work with us to help us restore our culture. To restore our spirituality. To restore our environments. To restore our Indigenous knowledge. And to restore our identities and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But for us to keep the conversations going, what we’re looking for is a healthy relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot have a healthy relationship if they think that this land is theirs because they bought it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The fact that two years on, the majority of the park will still remain inaccessible to the public upon reopening is a testament to the devastating nature of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire and the enormity of the task facing park authorities to make this land safe for the public again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spohrer says that, in the name of reopening Big Basin, park authorities continue to “focus on elements that we can do more quickly, along with opening up the trails.” For example, restoring the backcountry trails in the wilderness of Big Basin will be a far longer process, he warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long haul,” says Spohrer, “a tough climb out from a devastating fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another much-loved element of Big Basin lost to the 2020 fire were the four campgrounds. Spohrer says that officials’ “overarching principle” is to “try and retain the amount of camping recreation that we had in the park prior to the fire.” But he notes that of all the elements of Big Basin’s return, camping is one of the ones that will take the longest because of the sheer amount of infrastructure camping facilities demand — and that it’ll be several years until campers can return to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Big Basin staff, talk of rebuilding the campgrounds comes with particularly raw memories of the campground evacuation that took place when the flames of the CZU fire began to become visible on the horizon: “a flaming front,” as Spohrer puts it, that “moved extremely rapidly” toward the campers gathered below. That night in August 2020, the campgrounds were full with summer vacationers, who were all successfully evacuated from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919845 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a California State Parks uniform and a yellow wide-brimmed hat turns away from the camera to point at the redwoods behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was remarkable how quickly our staff was able to respond and to successfully get everybody out without loss of life,” says Spohrer. But those same staff who scrambled to evacuate campers lived close by, in park housing that had stood in Big Basin since the 1950s, and they had no time to go back and save their own possessions. Six of the seven homes burned to the ground, and “they and their families pretty much lost everything,” Spohrer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in this region that was affected by the fire has been in a recovery mode,” he says. “It takes its toll for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, it’s possible to see Big Basin as the inaugural test case for how a beloved California land rebirths itself after fire. What choices will that land’s most recent stewards make — and whose voices and needs are brought to the table, perhaps for the first time? What could it look like to work with fire, not against it, and remake a place not for newness, but in the spirit of intentional return to older ways?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919856\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919856 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blackened fallen redwood tree trunk lies in a bright green meadow. Yellow wildflowers are in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56366_053_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tall grass and wildflowers grow in a meadow at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel confident that we can find ways to reach agreements to allow Indigenous people to once again come back to these lands, and to take care of them in the traditional ways, and to restore sacredness to these grounds,” says Lopez. “And to have a voice in how Big Basin — and those lands of Big Basin — are managed and stewarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s going to take time,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California wildfires get bigger and hotter, and more national and state parks potentially lie in fire’s path, these are choices those places might have to make soon, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Spohrer acknowledges, at Big Basin “we are — either fortunately, or unfortunately — getting to be the first to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pride month is in full bloom at \u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filoli\u003c/a>, a country estate built in 1915 by a gold mining magnate nestled in the hills about 25 miles south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are extravagant floral arrangements, rainbow flags and — perhaps surprisingly for visitors unsteeped in the world of 1980s TV soap operas — an exhibition and other related programming related to “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynasty\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the prime-time TV series, which turns 40 this year, was set in Denver, the earliest episodes were filmed inside and outside Filoli. The iconic estate rests in the hills west of Redwood City, surrounded by the lush greenery of a 23,000-acre natural preserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"J. Reid Miller, Oakland-based philosophy scholar\"]‘This is the first time that you get this character who is explicitly gay, and there for the long haul … You can’t just get rid of him after a couple of episodes. You can’t write him out of the storyline, because he’s part of the family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the yo-yoing fortunes of a wealthy Denver oil family, “Dynasty” began to resonate strongly with the LGBTQ+ community — and the gay, men-identified community in particular — not long after the show debuted in 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original version of ‘Dynasty’ was a predominantly gay male phenomenon during the 1980s,” said \u003ca href=\"https://ccsre.stanford.edu/people/jerry-reid-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Reid Miller\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based philosophy scholar affiliated with Haverford College who studies queer representations in culture, and whom KQED spoke with recently over video chat. “With the reboot in 2017, however, I think the entire LGBTQ+ audience rediscovered the original, and have since incorporated it under the umbrella of queer fabulousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between introducing one of the first out gay characters to mass audiences and offering up scenes of the kind of unforgettable camp oft-celebrated in drag performances — like over-the-top catfights, enormous shoulder pads and cutting one-liners about stereotypically frothy topics like cosmetic surgery and caviar — “Dynasty” achieved iconic status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a time of great capitalist excess, you know, that was really represented in this legendary global show,” said \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/05/new-arts-dean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celine Parreñas Shimizu\u003c/a>, director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, and incoming dean of the arts division at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch parties popped up across the country, inspiring drag outfits to match the colorful characters, especially those of rivals\u003ca href=\"https://dynastytv.fandom.com/wiki/Alexis_Carrington_Colby\"> Alexis Carrington Colby\u003c/a>, the show’s arch villainess, and the comparatively docile Krystle Carrington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878081 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David B. Schively (from left), Joe Olivier and Timothy Larson attend a ‘Dynasty’ dress-up event at Filoli gardens on June 3, 2021 in Woodside. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Back in 1981, I was really kind of a young, innocent person. And ‘Dynasty’ was a great way of getting a sense of my community and my tribe,” said Joe Olivier, who watched the show regularly soon after coming out as gay while attending college in New Orleans. KQED spoke with the 60-year-old at Filoli’s “Dynasty”-themed party earlier this month. “The Bourbon Pub down in the French Quarter had big-screen TVs. Everyone was there. It was packed. And they started the show and everyone was hooting and hollering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We watched ‘Dynasty’ in bars, and cheered the show on as if it were a football game,” said David Schively, 59, of San Jose. Like some of the other guests that night, he came decked out in costume: a flowing jacket from the 1980s and glittery shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do I like ‘Dynasty’?” said 60-something Oakland resident Mary Joan Kealy, who also attended the event. “Because it has great clothes and is pretentious, honey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Dynasty’ fan Mary Joan Kealy sits by the pool at Filoli gardens during a ‘Dynasty’ dress-up event on June 3, 2021 in Woodside.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s Drag Alexis Visits Filoli\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dressing up in 1980s regalia is just a part of the appeal of “Dynasty” for \u003ca href=\"https://www.darcydrollinger.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D’Arcy Drollinger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco-based performer, director and writer first produced a stage show, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=191bm8phFc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitch Slap,\u003c/a>” spoofing many prominent “Dynasty” characters, scenarios and lines at the SOMA drag club she owns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oasis\u003c/a>, in 2017. In the show, Drollinger plays Diana Midnight, a character based on Alexis Colby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1842px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878093 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1842\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut.jpg 1842w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-1536x866.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1842px) 100vw, 1842px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger (left) plays Diana Midnight in the ‘Dynasty’-inspired soap opera spoof ‘Bitch Slap.’ \u003ccite>(Mr Pam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alexis Carrington Colby is the highest camp on television,” said Drollinger. “She’s the juiciest character, and the most drag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in Alexis-style red patent stiletto heels, a tight red and black power suit, and a voluminous black wig, Drollinger recently joined KQED for a special after-hours tour of the house to hear about its “Dynasty” connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the drag artist’s special affinity for the soap opera, this was Drollinger’s first-ever visit to Filoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so excited!” she said. “It feels like going to the motherland to see it in the flesh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcBcBU6pepQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The character of Alexis, played by glamorous British actress Joan Collins in the original series, didn’t appear until season two. By that time, production had moved from Filoli to a soundstage in Hollywood. But that fact didn’t stop Drollinger, channeling not just the look but also the spirit of Alexis, from acting like she owned the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to check on my house!” said Drollinger, as she sashayed through the mansion’s imposing front doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Filoli’s ‘Dynasty’ Connections\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Local news media helps tease out the show’s legacy. According to a 1984 article in the San Francisco Examiner, the show’s co-producer, Esther Shapiro, saw Filoli on screen in the 1978 screen comedy “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heaven Can Wait\u003c/a>” and decided to use the venue for “Dynasty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tour, interpretation manager Willa Brock pointed out where various scenes from the TV series were shot, like the massive, chandeliered ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878102 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filoli ballroom. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In this room, a pretty pivotal scene happened early on in the series, which is when Blake and Krystle got married,” Brock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dining room, presided over by an oil painting featuring a dead hare suspended from one of its hind legs, was also used as a setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the first couple episodes, they have a pretty strained family dinner in here,” Brock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the library, with its dark, oak-paneled walls and shelves laden with antique books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878103 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filoli library. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In ‘Dynasty’, this was Blake Carrington’s office,” said Brock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brock said the Filoli library was the site, in 1981, of the groundbreaking coming out scene between oil titan Blake Carrington and Steven Carrington, his misunderstood son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drollinger said this was one of the first appearances of an openly gay central character in a prime-time TV drama. Up to that point, the few gay characters that there were stayed firmly in the closet or played for laughs, like Billy Crystal’s character Jodie on the comedy series “Soap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even then, that was still a huge, huge thing,” said Drollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a small precedent for Steven Carrington, though. The rival prime-time soap “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas\u003c/a>” featured a dramatic, gay character for two episodes in 1979 named Kit Mainwaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scholar \u003ca href=\"https://ccsre.stanford.edu/people/jerry-reid-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Reid Miller\u003c/a> said Steven Carrington wasn’t just out, but was also integral to the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time that you get this character who is explicitly gay, and there for the long haul,” said Miller. “You can’t just get rid of him after a couple of episodes. You can’t write him out of the storyline, because he’s part of the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"gay son\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/HJ1_ayUjimY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Miller said, Steven was more than just a character that appealed to the LGBTQ+ community, or even gay men specifically. His presence challenged heterosexuals to figure out how to integrate gay people into their world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a character for everyone,” said Miller. “He’s a character that’s saying, ‘We’re here and we’re not going away.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Miller said Steven Carrington, who over the course of the show’s nine seasons ended up being played by two different actors (Al Corley and Jack Coleman) and was romantically connected with both men and women at various times, was usurped in the eyes of the LGBTQ+ community by some of the show’s other charms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s Joan Collins and the drama and the costumes,” Miller said. “And it’s become so patently gay that a kind of gender-conforming homosexual male is not in any way the gayest part of the program anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The ‘Dynasty’ Legacy for LGBTQ+ Audiences\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Filoli, the tour is coming to an end. Standing in a leafy courtyard under the iconic window where Krystle Carrington, played by Linda Evans, looked out wistfully on her wedding day, Drollinger sums up “Dynasty’s” impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878106 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filoli interpretation manager and tour guide, Willa Brock (left) chats with D’Arcy Drollinger about ‘Dynasty.’ \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only was it so pivotal in having a key gay character that had a real arc, but it also took this high camp, this almost drag quality, to a new level on television,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drollinger said “Dynasty” didn’t end up presaging a major rise in gay TV characters or roles for gay actors. The change would come about slowly, starting with shows like the 1990s sitcom “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellen\u003c/a>” starring Ellen DeGeneres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even looking later on when gay characters were in television shows like ‘\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melrose Place\u003c/a>,’ they didn’t have as much character development as Steven did,” said Drollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she added the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(2017_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 “Dynasty” reboot\u003c/a> paled in comparison to the original, even if the newer version did include a transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t have the magic,” said Drollinger of the reboot. “There was a beautiful, over-the-top naiveté in the original ‘Dynasty’. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a time of great capitalist excess, you know, that was really represented in this legendary global show,” said \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/05/new-arts-dean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celine Parreñas Shimizu\u003c/a>, director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, and incoming dean of the arts division at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch parties popped up across the country, inspiring drag outfits to match the colorful characters, especially those of rivals\u003ca href=\"https://dynastytv.fandom.com/wiki/Alexis_Carrington_Colby\"> Alexis Carrington Colby\u003c/a>, the show’s arch villainess, and the comparatively docile Krystle Carrington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878081 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49659_026_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David B. Schively (from left), Joe Olivier and Timothy Larson attend a ‘Dynasty’ dress-up event at Filoli gardens on June 3, 2021 in Woodside. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Back in 1981, I was really kind of a young, innocent person. And ‘Dynasty’ was a great way of getting a sense of my community and my tribe,” said Joe Olivier, who watched the show regularly soon after coming out as gay while attending college in New Orleans. KQED spoke with the 60-year-old at Filoli’s “Dynasty”-themed party earlier this month. “The Bourbon Pub down in the French Quarter had big-screen TVs. Everyone was there. It was packed. And they started the show and everyone was hooting and hollering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We watched ‘Dynasty’ in bars, and cheered the show on as if it were a football game,” said David Schively, 59, of San Jose. Like some of the other guests that night, he came decked out in costume: a flowing jacket from the 1980s and glittery shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do I like ‘Dynasty’?” said 60-something Oakland resident Mary Joan Kealy, who also attended the event. “Because it has great clothes and is pretentious, honey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49647_014_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Dynasty’ fan Mary Joan Kealy sits by the pool at Filoli gardens during a ‘Dynasty’ dress-up event on June 3, 2021 in Woodside.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s Drag Alexis Visits Filoli\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dressing up in 1980s regalia is just a part of the appeal of “Dynasty” for \u003ca href=\"https://www.darcydrollinger.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D’Arcy Drollinger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco-based performer, director and writer first produced a stage show, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=191bm8phFc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitch Slap,\u003c/a>” spoofing many prominent “Dynasty” characters, scenarios and lines at the SOMA drag club she owns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oasis\u003c/a>, in 2017. In the show, Drollinger plays Diana Midnight, a character based on Alexis Colby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1842px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878093 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1842\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut.jpg 1842w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49880_Diana-Midnight-By-Mr-Pam-qut-1536x866.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1842px) 100vw, 1842px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger (left) plays Diana Midnight in the ‘Dynasty’-inspired soap opera spoof ‘Bitch Slap.’ \u003ccite>(Mr Pam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alexis Carrington Colby is the highest camp on television,” said Drollinger. “She’s the juiciest character, and the most drag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in Alexis-style red patent stiletto heels, a tight red and black power suit, and a voluminous black wig, Drollinger recently joined KQED for a special after-hours tour of the house to hear about its “Dynasty” connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the drag artist’s special affinity for the soap opera, this was Drollinger’s first-ever visit to Filoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so excited!” she said. “It feels like going to the motherland to see it in the flesh.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xcBcBU6pepQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xcBcBU6pepQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The character of Alexis, played by glamorous British actress Joan Collins in the original series, didn’t appear until season two. By that time, production had moved from Filoli to a soundstage in Hollywood. But that fact didn’t stop Drollinger, channeling not just the look but also the spirit of Alexis, from acting like she owned the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to check on my house!” said Drollinger, as she sashayed through the mansion’s imposing front doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Filoli’s ‘Dynasty’ Connections\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Local news media helps tease out the show’s legacy. According to a 1984 article in the San Francisco Examiner, the show’s co-producer, Esther Shapiro, saw Filoli on screen in the 1978 screen comedy “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heaven Can Wait\u003c/a>” and decided to use the venue for “Dynasty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tour, interpretation manager Willa Brock pointed out where various scenes from the TV series were shot, like the massive, chandeliered ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878102 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49875_ballroom-beth-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filoli ballroom. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In this room, a pretty pivotal scene happened early on in the series, which is when Blake and Krystle got married,” Brock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dining room, presided over by an oil painting featuring a dead hare suspended from one of its hind legs, was also used as a setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the first couple episodes, they have a pretty strained family dinner in here,” Brock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the library, with its dark, oak-paneled walls and shelves laden with antique books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878103 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49641_006_Woodside_FiloliDynasty_06032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filoli library. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In ‘Dynasty’, this was Blake Carrington’s office,” said Brock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brock said the Filoli library was the site, in 1981, of the groundbreaking coming out scene between oil titan Blake Carrington and Steven Carrington, his misunderstood son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drollinger said this was one of the first appearances of an openly gay central character in a prime-time TV drama. Up to that point, the few gay characters that there were stayed firmly in the closet or played for laughs, like Billy Crystal’s character Jodie on the comedy series “Soap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even then, that was still a huge, huge thing,” said Drollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a small precedent for Steven Carrington, though. The rival prime-time soap “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas\u003c/a>” featured a dramatic, gay character for two episodes in 1979 named Kit Mainwaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scholar \u003ca href=\"https://ccsre.stanford.edu/people/jerry-reid-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Reid Miller\u003c/a> said Steven Carrington wasn’t just out, but was also integral to the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time that you get this character who is explicitly gay, and there for the long haul,” said Miller. “You can’t just get rid of him after a couple of episodes. You can’t write him out of the storyline, because he’s part of the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"gay son\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/HJ1_ayUjimY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Miller said, Steven was more than just a character that appealed to the LGBTQ+ community, or even gay men specifically. His presence challenged heterosexuals to figure out how to integrate gay people into their world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a character for everyone,” said Miller. “He’s a character that’s saying, ‘We’re here and we’re not going away.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Miller said Steven Carrington, who over the course of the show’s nine seasons ended up being played by two different actors (Al Corley and Jack Coleman) and was romantically connected with both men and women at various times, was usurped in the eyes of the LGBTQ+ community by some of the show’s other charms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s Joan Collins and the drama and the costumes,” Miller said. “And it’s become so patently gay that a kind of gender-conforming homosexual male is not in any way the gayest part of the program anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The ‘Dynasty’ Legacy for LGBTQ+ Audiences\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Filoli, the tour is coming to an end. Standing in a leafy courtyard under the iconic window where Krystle Carrington, played by Linda Evans, looked out wistfully on her wedding day, Drollinger sums up “Dynasty’s” impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878106 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49878_darcy-and-willa-chat-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filoli interpretation manager and tour guide, Willa Brock (left) chats with D’Arcy Drollinger about ‘Dynasty.’ \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only was it so pivotal in having a key gay character that had a real arc, but it also took this high camp, this almost drag quality, to a new level on television,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drollinger said “Dynasty” didn’t end up presaging a major rise in gay TV characters or roles for gay actors. The change would come about slowly, starting with shows like the 1990s sitcom “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellen\u003c/a>” starring Ellen DeGeneres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even looking later on when gay characters were in television shows like ‘\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melrose Place\u003c/a>,’ they didn’t have as much character development as Steven did,” said Drollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she added the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(2017_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 “Dynasty” reboot\u003c/a> paled in comparison to the original, even if the newer version did include a transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t have the magic,” said Drollinger of the reboot. “There was a beautiful, over-the-top naiveté in the original ‘Dynasty’. 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