Top left: Parking for new visitors' shuttle at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County. Top right: Site of administration building destroyed in 2020 fire. Bottom left: Hihn Hammond Fire Road. Bottom right: redwood regrowth. (California State Parks via BCN)

Free buses will shuttle visitors into Big Basin Redwood State Park this summer as California’s oldest state park shows off its continuing recovery from a 2020 forest fire.

The weekend Santa Cruz METRO bus service beginning May 25 marks the biggest increase in park access since it reopened in July 2022, state officials said in a press release Friday.

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