Originally Posted by
mlshanks
If you are just looking to see Redwoods, no need to go North of San Francisco into Marin at all. There are a bunch of Parks and open-space preserves that are *also* South of the Airport. Wunderlich Park in San Mateo county has redwood groves, as does Purisima Creek and El Corte Midera open space preserves....if you are willing to do a little walking. Now if you really want to see *lots* of Redwoods with minimal walking, go down to Big Basin Redwoods State Park (southwest of San Jose).
I saw that. Unfortunately I don't think i am going to have the time to go that far south, as I definitely want to stop at a few places in DT San Francisco, too.
I think I am going to hold off and just plan a trip (hopefully after there is some rain) and just do a nice drive - look like there are a lot of nice parks down in that area. Maybe even stop at the Roaring Camp RR.