Which national park protects the tallest trees on Earth, the coastal redwoods?

Which national park protects the tallest trees on Earth, the coastal redwoods? Redwood National Park protects some of Earth’s tallest trees, the coastal redwoods.

Redwood National Park is part of the larger Redwood National and State Parks complex along California’s northern coast. Together, the federal and state parks protect extensive old-growth forests of coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, a species adapted to the region’s mild temperatures, heavy winter rain, and persistent summer fog.

The tallest known living tree, Hyperion, is a coast redwood in Redwood National Park. It was measured at more than 116 meters, or roughly 380 feet. Coast redwoods can also be exceptionally old and massive, though giant sequoias—not coast redwoods—hold the record for the largest tree by trunk volume.

Another common mix-up is treating “Redwood National Park” as the name of the entire protected landscape. The national park is federally managed, while three neighboring California state parks complete the jointly managed Redwood National and State Parks system. The combined parks preserve both forests and coastal habitat.