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Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park is the last in a long string of redwood parks that stretch up northern California’s coast. A few miles inland from the ocean, the park is densely forested with huge ancient trees. In fact, it contains 7% of all of the old-growth redwoods left in the world.
This account comes from James Clyman's description given in 1871. The event took place in the year 1824. For a full-text version visit: https://www.frontierl...
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park has 89 sites which each have a table, fire ring and cupboard, with restrooms nearby. Some sites can accommodate trailers or motorhomes up to 36 feet (no hookups). ReserveCalifornia Camping Reservations: Online: www.reservecalifornia.com. Phone: 1-800-444-PARK (7275) TDD: 1-800-274-7275.
Jedediah Strong Smith was born in Bainbridge, New York, on January 6, 1799. Young Jedediah moved with his family as they pressed westward in an effort to remain at the frontier. He supposedly read about the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a small boy and was inspired by that great adventure. Adventures and misadventures begin In 1822, 23-year-old ...
Jedediah Smith’s wish was to be “the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new land.” His reports on the geology and geography of the western territories appeared in newspapers of the day, and proved that the Sierra Nevada could be safely crossed to reach California.
Bright, open, and lush, Jed Smith’s redwood groves are the most scenic anywhere. The park’s trees are absolutely stupendous: not as tall as the redwoods to the south, but bigger in diameter. Somewhere in the park is the largest coast redwood by volume, a tree that’s exceeded in size, and not by much, by only seven giant sequoias.
These maps are described in The Maps of Jedediah Smith in the American West, published by Carl Wheat and Dale Morgan in 1954. The takeaway of these maps is not to try to assert the exact routes Smith traveled, but to put his travels into the historical context of events that took place before or after his presence, providing on overview of ...
