Jedediah Smith Redwoods Campground provides the opportunity to camp among the giant coast redwoods. You can look up and ...

Vacation crowds can turn Yosemite, Big Sur, Monterey, South Lake Tahoe and San Francisco into pressure cookers. The Redwood Empire can provide a relief valve. You can get world-class beauty, trails ...

Are you planning a pilgrimage to visit the tallest trees in the world? The old-growth redwoods on the California coast are kings and queens of the forest, and if you’re traveling north through ...

Jedediah Strong Smith was the first American to reach California by an overland route. Lewis and Clark had reached the Pacific Coast earlier and Pike had reached New Mexico but no American had reached ...

The senior inside linebacker racked up 16 total tackles, including 12 unassisted, and recorded a sack, pass breakup and blocked punt in a 35-14 victory against then-No. 5 Tesoro. Smith (5-9, 179) was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WEOTT, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — According to a ...

Jedediah Strong Smith was born in New York Jan. 6, 1799. His parents ran a unprofitable store that they left in 1811 for greener pastures on the frontier, first in Pennsylvania then in Northeast Ohio.

The legacy of the fur trade opened the West to travel and settlement, much to the understandable resentment of the Indigenous people. The trade — beginning with the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark ...

It’s prime camping time in California, with thousands of residents taking their families to state parks every weekend. California has a reputation for great camping at its state parks. But some parks ...

You could say that very first illegal immigrant to cross an international border into Southern California was a man from New York. He was Jedediah Smith, the first American to come over land to the ...