During our second day in San Francisco, we took a trip to Muir Woods. Muir Woods is a national park with giant redwood trees.

Almost tall enough!

The trees were a lot bigger than I expected. I thought they would be 3 stories high, but they looked like they were 6 stories! That really surprised me. I also thought there would be thousands of bugs, and there was only a few flies and ants.

Muir Woods has a lot of really long hikes you can take. There is 554 acres of land, so the hikes were almost 5 miles long!  We took the main route for a mile. That’s where I took a selfie with a Redwood. Then we switched to a 5 foot wide route that was on the side of a mountain for the last 2 miles we hiked. I got scared because I thought I was going to fall off the side. Thankfully I didn’t. From up on the hill we had a really good view of the whole park. You could see hundreds of Redwoods.

At the end of the hike we saw the inside of a Redwood tree that was on display.

It was 1 foot thick and 5 feet wide. It looked bigger than my whole family combined! I learned that the rings inside the tree represent how old the tree is. This tree was from the year 508 A.D, so it was almost 3,000 years old! I thought that was really cool. The arrows on the tree are big parts of U.S. history. One of them is pointing to the ring from the year 1787, when the Constitution was written.

I also saw something that said why the trees are so tall. It said from November-April, it rains 60-140 inches and the temperature is 45 degrees to 61 degrees. It said that climate makes trees grow bigger.

I would really recommend going to Muir Woods. The hikes are really fun because it’s just nature. There isn’t anything on the hike that isn’t natural. It’s fun to try to guess how old the trees are by looking at them, and just seeing trees so giant is cool.

I was a little sad when we stopped hiking because I had a lot of fun. I couldn’t wait to go to the Giants game the next day though.