SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Santa Cruz County was showcased on a New York Periods position of locations of “places for a altered planet,” geared at shining a highlight on “areas close to the world wherever vacationers can be section of the alternative.”

Santa Cruz County took the #44 location on a listing of 52 locales. It was the only Golden State spot featured.

KSBW initially described the information.

The piece inspired vacationers to examine out the Santa Cruz Mountains, specifically specified that the CZU fires “threatened some of the world’s oldest forests,” in accordance to the Occasions.

“Fortunately, most of the parks’ mighty redwoods survived the flames, and now hope — in the kind of expanded eco-friendly initiatives — is dawning throughout Santa Cruz County,” the Occasions wrote.

The Occasions mentioned efforts are ongoing to reimagine Significant Basin Redwoods Point out Park and that Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park remained open up.

See the checklist from New York Periods.