🌲 Muir Woods for kids

Okay, explorers, use your quiet voices. We're coming into Muir Woods, a forest of giant redwood trees. Some of these trees are more than one thousand years old! That's older than castles and knights!

And they're tall, tall, tall, taller than a twenty-story building. Long ago, people wanted to cut these trees down to make lumber. But a man and woman named William and Elizabeth Kent bought the forest to save it, and gave it to everybody, forever! They named it after John Muir, a man who loved nature so much he spent his life protecting it.

And keep your eyes on the ground, because the forest is full of banana slugs. They're bright yellow, slimy, and really do look like little bananas! Just don't try to eat one.