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| When were the redwood parks created? We've been "saving" the redwoods for many generations and now have one of the greatest park systems ever created to preserve a single species. |
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| CHRONOLOGY OF THE CREATION OF CALIFORNIA’S REDWOOD PARKS | Current Acreage | |
| 1902 | Big Basin Redwood State Park | 18,132 |
| 1907 | Muir Woods National Monument | 485 |
| 1921 | Humboldt Redwoods State Park | 52,246 |
| 1921 | Standish-Hickey | 1,021 |
| 1922 | Richardson Grove | 1,574 |
| 1923 | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park | 14,004 |
| 1924 | Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park | 6,370 |
| 1928 | Mt. Tamalpais SP | 6,192 |
| 1928 | Paul Dimmick | 672 |
| 1928 | Humboldt Lagoons | 360 |
| 1929 | Jedediah Smith | 9,793 |
| 1930 | Van Damme | 2,155 |
| 1933 | Russian Gulch | 1,259 |
| 1933 | Pfeiffer Big Sur | 802 |
| 1934 | Armstrong Redwoods | 752 |
| 1943 | Grizzly Creek Redwoods | 394 |
| 1944 | Admiral Stanley | 45 |
| 1945 | Portola | 2,507 |
| 1946 | Samuel Taylor | 2,616 |
| 1947 | Montgomery Woods | 1,322 |
| 1954 | Henry Cowell | 4,136 |
| 1954 | Mailliard Redwoods | 242 |
| 1956 | Butano | 2,671 |
| 1958 | Benbow Lake | 975 |
| 1958 | Hendy Woods | 816 |
| 1961 | Julia Pfeiffer Burns | 2,040 |
| 1963 | Smithe Redwoods | 628 |
| 1963 | Forest of Nisene Marks | 10,095 |
| 1966 | Austin Creek | 5,107 |
| 1966 | Reynolds | 376 |
| 1968 | Andrew Molera | 4,749 |
| 1968 | Redwood National Park - original | 28,000 |
| 1975 | Sinkyone Wilderness | 7,407 |
| 1976 | Jug Handle | 756 |
| 1978 | Redwood National Park - expansion | 48,000 |
| 1978 | Big Creek Preserve | 3,858 |
| 1981 | Humboldt Lagoons | 360 |
| 1988 | Navarro River Redwoods | 647 |
| 1989 | Harry Merlo | 830 |
| 1989 | Fort Ross | 3,275 |
| 1980s | Misc. Casc.2,493; LaPurisima 2,633; Wilder 4,511 | 9,637 |
| Total | 257,306 | |
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