Having done Redwoods national park and Sequoia national park within a few days of each other early this summer, here’s my advice:

Redwoods contain a lot of California Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), and they are super impressive. But Sequoia contains a lot of Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum), and those just boggle the mind. It’s like being on another planet. I very highly recommend The Congress Trail, which starts at the largest tree in the world (by volume) and continues through multiple groves.

So do Sequoia second, or just Sequoia if you have to choose.

That’s really hard to narrow down; I suspect that she didn’t really want me from some point in childhood onward. When I was a teen she said that her duty to God was completed once I turned 18, and she’d be rid of me. When I turned 17, she developed short-timers syndrome, if you’ll pardon the slang, and I was kicked out. God’s gonna be so maaaaaaaddd!

It was hard going for 10 or so years, but I’m 38 now and doing just fine.