In Films
The park has served as a filming location for numerous films. The Endor scenes for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi were filmed in the Tall Trees Redwood Grove in the northern part of Humboldt County. Scenes for The Lost World: Jurassic Park as well as the movie Outbreak were filmed at the nearby Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and at Patrick's Point State Park.
Redwoods' also used as Jurassic Forests of Colorado in Walking with Dinosaurs in "Time of the Titans" and 2007 IMAX film Dinosaurs Alive!, where they used as Triassic Forests of New Mexico, which was based on Petrified wood in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The Muir Woods National Monument near San Francisco is featured in the 2011 Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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