LOS ANGELES — Nearly two years after a massive wildfire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, parts of the park are set to reopen this summer, allowing visitors the opportunity to return to its ancient coast redwood forests.
About 97% of California's oldest state park was burned in August 2020 when the CZU Lightning Complex fire tore through Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.
The fire burned for more than a month, covering 86,000 acres and killing one person. It also damaged or destroyed nearly all of the park's buildings, campgrounds and trail networks and burned nearly all its old-growth redwood forest. But those forests are recovering.
