The first time I saw Big Basin was 60 years ago on a vacation trip from Michigan. I was enchanted! A year later, we move to San Jose, and Big Basin became our favored place to visit for a Saturday barbeque, hiking, jumping on the fallen giants and feeding the deer that would come right up to you. I've always loved that park! It was one of the few places reserved from the rapacious lumber industry that felled billions of board-feet of old-growth Redwoods, so it still had many giants over 800 years old and over 8 feet in diameter; going into that forest was pure magic. It will eventually come back as most old Redwoods do, but it wont be the same without many of the old buildings and displays. My memories will have to serve me.

Excellent video! I LOVED this park, did many memorable hikes, including skyline to the sea. I'm devastated this happened but still feel blessed that I was privileged to see it in all its glory. Also happy that some redwoods will live on, and in a different time and a different era regain their full beauty. Truly these places are precious and scared, and nothing lasts forever. Appreciate with great reverence!

Thank you

I'm from Toledo, Ohio and drove to California in June 2017. I visited Big Basin and was saddened to see the destruction that this fire caused. Speedy recovery to all who live in the area.

I went there with my J.R.O.T.C. Unit for two days in the summer of 2019 to go camping. Seeing the state the park is in now devastates me. Thank you for showing this video.

This was by far one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to in my life. So devastating to see such a loss. I’m glad I was able to see it in it’s beautiful lush state. Tragic loss hopefully it can recover quickly.

Amazing video - When I was 3 my parents would take me to Big Basin in my wagon and we would tour the park. Through the years I would take my own kids to the park. It was the most majestic and beautiful place. Though the fires did its damage Big Basin will regrow and will be rebuilt. Its natures way. Thank you again for this outstanding video :)

Thank you for such a beautiful video. I use to work at Big Basin in the 80’s. It hurt my heart to had seen the destruction from fires. Joyce.

I lived just a few miles down from Big Basin at the Boulder Creek Golf Course from 1989-2002. I did volunteer work on keeping the trails clean. It was a great place to live and grow up in. It’s sad to see, but surprisingly these forests come back lush and green again. The damp coastal air and the ash in the soil have a way of renewing the forest.

@PG-wz7by

3 жыл бұрын

Near the golf course was badly damaged and homes were lost. At the moment, some areas the water is undrinkable due to piping and other items burning and leeching. We have tons of clean up work to do.

So sad our beloved Santa Cruz Mountains!

This is the last place, I ever went camping😭😭. I grew up, just a short distance away. So watching this precious area, go up in flames. Just tears at my heart. Thank you, for putting this video together🌲🌲.

Thank you for sharing. I was just there on 7/23-7/26. This is tough to watch. I hadn't seen the campfire center in any other pics since the fire.

@DeerLakor

3 жыл бұрын

It is hard to face the reality sometimes.

@guardinoinc.7490

3 жыл бұрын

I was there in June

Just drove through there today. The vegetation is starting to grow back but the forest will take decades to recover

From childhood to old age I have enjoyed this park, I am heart sick at the destruction.

People gotta realize that the park will look like it used to given time. The trees can have bark up to two feet thick and if somehow the fire top kills the main trunk, the stump will sprout new stems and replace the old. Nature is much more resilient than we think.

0:39 thats not a redwood, but a douglas fir...

Interesting video. It incorrectly states that the park was founded in 1927. It was actually founded in 1902.

@DeerLakor

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for correcting.

So sad. Thanks for sharing the video. I used to go there all the time when I lived in San Jose. The trees and forest will recover over time but the visitor center was such a cool building. I hope they can rebuild it.

Thank YOU for the memories. Such a big loss :(

So sad :) Thank you so much for this wonderful video. To have been there mere days before this catastrophe. Wow. Glad you took such nice video. I'm lucky to also have visited recently - after a 15 year hiatus. I only wish I had stayed longer and seen more of the park. Grew up within 20 miles of it and haven't spent more than a handful of days there. Shame on me. We have so much natural beauty within a stone's throw, yet we drive hours to "get away" when we have gems in our back yards. I had posted a comment recently about a conflagration in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lost Gatos and many other areas in this region are considered high risk fire zones. Well, I get that. But my grandmother grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains. And if we had spent millions remediating the fire risk, my grandmother, her kids and now me would have lived (most of) their lives without a single fire. No conflagration happened over the last hundred years. Until now. So how do we address this? Generations may pass and never have a fire. But then one happens. But where? Will all the effort and expenditure be worthwhile? Such difficult questions. "This Redwood fell January 26, 1983." 1982-83 El Nino event. Unbelievable. I happened to be taking driver's ed then. Our teacher took us on a back road in the Santa Cruz mountains during the storm. THAT was an experience I won't forget! Thanks again.

@dudeonbike800

3 жыл бұрын

PS While I'm here... Anyone who wants a great read about Redwoods should read Richard Preston's "The Wild Trees." Such a great read. A neighbor gave it to me just before departing for an Oregon vacation (again, hundreds of miles away from what we have here). I didn't pick up the book during the trip. Kids and dealing with camping and stuff. Once we reach Oregon and I open the pages, I discover much of the book is about Prairie Creek Redwoods - where we had JUST BEEN camping on the trip up! So ironic.

@annalynnzinnph.d.5337

3 жыл бұрын

Such beautiful video, and such wonderful comments! I have stayed at Big Basin, and feel so privileged to have been there.

The music is lovely and suits this. Thank you for sharing. How lucky you were there.

I wonder if the really big trees are still alive?

So sad :(

My parents ashes are scattered along the nature trail loop and I did my mother's eulogy in the amphitheater. My father's name is also in the legacy grove. Don't know if it survived. Horrible. Thank God major trees survived.

@csn583

3 жыл бұрын

You can see it in this video. They'll rebuild.

What a beautiful video of such a tragic loss. Living in CA we deal with wildfires every season. It doesn't get better or easier to handle or comprehend. The loss of human, animal, property & businesses is overwhelming. It's not just about climate change. Some folks are thoughtless & are intent on causing damage. Plus Park Management & our government need to do more to protect Americans & our precious resources. I especially worry about the animals as they can't rescue themselves.

I camp here every year with ,y who.e family. So sad to see this.

THIS IS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMRE TODAY WITH TAD JONES WHO LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AT LAST CHANCE

May I have permission to use this in a school project? Thanks.

@DeerLakor

2 жыл бұрын

Go ahead!

@AshmewStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeerLakor That was 5 months ago but I used it. Thanks (and great video)!

I because the golds gone it's too hot I guess.

Probably man made

That's why its essential you do prescribed burns. The redwood forests evolved with fire. A policy of fire suppression creates a lot of fuel materials so that when a large fire comes along they are far more destructive than need be. California's misguided forest management policies helped to cause this situation. Too bad we cant remove the redwood trees to a state that has more common sense fire policies.

@TheLindalord

3 жыл бұрын

up yours@casienwhey

@1guitar12

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLindalord Truth hurts doesn’t it Linda?

@robertbrame9052

3 жыл бұрын

As you see leaves brown but not burned. Trunks burning from inside out yet leaves the most flammable didn't burn. The lying elite. None of these fires around central calif were natural. All major fires were set intentionally and not lightning strikes. That's a good cover story. Cant trick an old mtnman Arborist.

@LS-ys8nr

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertbrame9052 get some education

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