Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
National parklands have fueled the imagination of filmmakers for decades. With the National Park Service centennial approaching in 2016, park ranger and cinema buff Chris Hendrix encourages you to Find Your Park: Find you place of inspiration. #findyourpark findyourpark.com
National parklands have fueled the imagination of filmmakers for decades. With the National Park Service centennial approaching in 2016, park ranger and cinema buff Chris Hendrix encourages you to Find Your Park: Find you place of inspiration. #findyourpark findyourpark.com
![Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Carruthers Trail.
Episode 1:
Join a national park ranger for a virtual walk down a trail to the Pacific Ocean. This trail is on ancestral Yurok land - and is located in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park section of Redwood National and State Parks.
[Video description: This is a montage of four video clips of a uniformed park ranger descending hundreds of feet on an unpaved trail. No text appears at all. The trail begins in redwood trees, and soon the forests change to sitka spruce trees and then alder trees. As the trail passes a gully lined with ferns, ocean waves are heard. The ranger finally leaves the forests and walks onto a wide, gray and pebbly beach. Waves are seen crashing on the beach. It is a cloudy day. Cliffs, ridgelines lined with trees ,and steep bluffs surround three sides of the 360 degree scene]. Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Carruthers Trail.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6DDuN_FHy90/mqdefault.jpg)




![Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Walking Along Prairie Creek
Episode 5:
Take a couple of virtual minutes to get your feet slightly wet as a ranger walks along the banks of Prairie Creek. This is ancestral Yurok lands.
[Video description: a uniformed national park ranger walks along a cobbled creek. Redwoods, maples, fir and other trees line both sides of the creek. The ranger steps over logs and under branches. The creek is about 20 feet wide and is fairly shallow and calm]. Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Walking Along Prairie Creek](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/98oDnHWvNLU/mqdefault.jpg)



![What Good is a Redwood?
Join Ranger Greg to discover some of the unexpected, but important things redwood forests do for us all.
[Note: In 2016 - a year after this video was produced - new research showed that an acre of old-growth redwoods can hold 1,000 metric tons of carbon. This is almost four times the previously reported data that was used in this video] What Good is a Redwood?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B2FemnzAHuk/mqdefault.jpg)
