Redwood National and State Parks Bingo

Find the four golden bear statues guarding the Highway 101 bridge over the Klamath River.

The tallest trees on Earth. Stand in an old-growth grove and look straight up the trunk.

Coast redwoods are the tallest living things on the planet. The record holder tops 380 feet, and the tree grows so tall partly because it can pull extra water straight out of ocean fog.

Find the clear green Smith River by Stout Grove, the last big undammed river in California.

Watch the open grass at Elk Meadow and Elk Prairie for grazing elk at dawn and dusk.

Only the bulls grow antlers, and they grow fast, up to an inch a day, then drop off each winter and start over in spring.

Take the short spur off the Drury Parkway to the Big Tree, a redwood over 300 feet tall.

On damp, misty days look low on logs and trail edges for a slug and its shining slime trail.

A banana slug breathes through a hole in its side. That round opening near the front, called a pneumostome, opens and closes to let air into a simple lung inside the slug's body.

Drive the Newton B. Drury Parkway, the slow old-growth road that runs beside the highway.

Might turn up near meadows and berry patches in the forest. Watch quietly from far off.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has about two black bears per square mile, roughly 1,900 bears, one of the thickest black-bear populations anywhere.

Put both hands on the bark of one of the giants and look straight up the trunk.

Walk the flat 1.4-mile loop through old-growth redwoods, usually misty in the morning.

The old-growth-with-kids stop on the federal side: a 1.4-mile loop on a mostly flat path at about 2,000 feet, reached off Bald Hills Road.

Join hands around a trunk. It can take more than ten people to reach all the way around.

Walls 30 to 80 feet high draped in ferns, with a creek to splash through. Wear wet shoes.

Walls 30 to 80 feet high, draped in seven fern species fed by year-round seep water, with the canyon floor a creek you walk through.

Some old redwoods are hollowed by old fires into a goosepen. Find one big enough to stand inside.

Find a redwood that has fallen and pace its length end to end. Count your steps out loud.

A short, flat loop on the Smith River past some of the largest trees by volume.

A 0.5-mile loop, essentially flat, on the Smith River flat in the north of the joint park.

The tallest known tree on Earth grows in this park. Its exact spot is kept secret to protect it.

Home of a former world-champion redwood; a free daily permit gets you down to it.

Holds the former world-champion Howard Libbey Tree, recorded at 367.8 feet by the 1963 National Geographic survey that put the park on the national map.

Redwood is rare: old-growth grows almost down to the Pacific. Photograph big trees near the beach.

Drive-up coastal pullout south of Crescent City that faces the sunset.

A drive-up coastal pullout south of Crescent City on Enderts Beach Road, looking down the shoreline.

Photograph the marine layer sitting in the redwoods on a gray morning.

The new welcome area near Orick, built with the Yurok Tribe on their ancestral land.

125 acres near Orick, at the south end of the park, being returned to the Yurok Tribe: the first land of its kind transferred back inside this joint park.

Find a fallen log with young trees growing straight out of it in a row. It's called a nurse log.

Old-growth campground beside the meadow where elk graze within sight of the sites.

Sits at the south end of the Newton B.

Pick up a booklet at a visitor center and finish it to be sworn in as a Junior Ranger.