Plan to rebuild Big Basin Redwoods State Park after devastating fire nears completion

Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitor center and other facilities, state parks officials have finalized a plan to rebuild.

The new plan for the beloved Santa Cruz Mountains destination, which opened in 1902 and received roughly 1 million visitors a year during its heyday before the fire, was released late Tuesday after more than a year of public meetings and studies.