California Things to See
Humboldt County Albino Tree
When you think "white Christmas", the words may evoke images of a field of new-fallen snow covering trees. In Humboldt County's redwood forest along the coast where it rarely snows, visitors who happen upon the Albino Tree think they've walked into a White Christmas scene. It is simply magical and amazing!
Humboldt County's Redwood Forest is a gem among beaches in California, providing the most old-fashioned of holidays with its towering redwood trees that give the Christmas holiday extra sparkle and that refreshing scent that only a wooded area can provide.
Visitors from around world flock to see not Christmas flocked trees, but the living testaments to time, older in some cases than the birth of Jesus. The forests filled with the world's tallest living trees and the unique Albino truly bring meaning to the term, White Christmas.
Six of these rare "forest ghosts" live in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. You may think of them as Ghosts of Christmas Past (from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.) Indeed, if the trees in these redwood forests could speak they would be the longest living historians.