Photographers’ ‘Holy Grail’: catching the peak of the rhododendron bloom in Redwood National Park. Redwood photography is hard. Despite your best efforts, photos often capture only a small fraction of ...

Quick Facts: Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park Open: Year-round ... and pastel flowers of azaleas and California rhododendron. Some evenings the fog rolls in from the sea, filling the river ...

according to the National Park Service. That region, where it first appeared in the fossil record about 2 million years ago, is the only current natural range of the dawn redwood, according to the ...