Create a Living Legacy

Walk through a redwood grove and you can't help but experience the tranquil solitude and sense of awe that these ancient and majestic trees inspire. Many feel that there is no more fitting way to honor and memorialize those they love and respect than with a gift that preserves these magnificent redwoods for future generations.

Dedicating a redwood grove through a gift to Save-the-Redwoods League ensures that the beauty and grandeur of the redwoods will continue to inspire future generations, while setting aside a special place in the forest where you and your family may savor the trees and the rivers and wildlife that surround them.

A Gift from the Heart

In 1921—soon after Save-the-Redwoods League was founded— the League inaugurated its honor and memorial grove program. The first large gift to purchase and dedicate a redwood grove was given in honor of the first American officer of high rank to fall in World War I. A cathedral-like grove of ancient redwoods was purchased on the banks of the Eel River in the heart of the redwood region. Today, nearly 1,000 honor and memorial groves have been established in California redwood state parks and reserves and Redwood National Park, and more are added each year.

Dedicating Your Grove

You may personally visit and select from the available groves in over 20 redwood parks. Maps with the exact location of the groves are available. League staff or park rangers are also happy to accompany you on your visit. Those unable to visit the redwoods may ask the League to designate a grove for them.

Donations vary, based on the size and age of the trees, density of forest cover, acreage, accessibility and location. Grove gifts, which begin at $25,000, may be made in a lump sum, over a period of three years, or by bequest or other form of planned gift. In many parks, a sign bearing the name of the honoree may be placed in the grove.

Gifts to dedicate a redwood grove support land acquisition, reforestation, education, redwood research and other programmatic work.

A Choice of Locations

Magnificent redwood groves are available for dedication as a memorial or honor grove all along the north coast of California, from Big Sur to the Oregon border. Some have small creeks winding quietly through the trees. Others have breathtaking views of the Pacific. Many are easily accessible by trail and others are tucked into the far reaches of the parks.

Many of the well-known redwood state parks (SP), state reserves (SR) and state recreation areas (SRA) offer groves for dedication. Your grove may be established in one of the following sites:

Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP
Del Norte Coast SP
Grove of Old Trees
Prairie Creek Redwoods SP
Portola Redwoods SP
Redwood National Park
Butano SP
Harry A. Merlo SRA
Big Basin Redwoods SP
Humboldt Redwoods SP
Forest of Nisene Marks SP
Sinkyone Wilderness SP
Purisima Creek Redwoods
Montgomery Woods SR
Wilder Ranch SP
Navarro River Redwoods SP
Julia Pfeiffer Burns SP
Jughandle SR
Limekiln Creek SP

For a complete list of memorial and honor groves, click here (PDF).

For further information on dedicating memorial and honor groves, call Megan Ferreira at (888) 836-0005, ext. 309, or e-mail mferreira@savetheredwoods.org.