Wednesday, September 1 - It was a 4 hour drive from Crater Lake to Redwood National Park, quite a beautiful drive on a windy road through the redwoods. We had booked 3 nights at Elk Prairie Campground which is part of the State Park system. The Redwood park system is co-managed by both the national and state parks. Within Elk Prairie there are many great hiking trails. After setting up camp we did an evening hike to "The Big Tree". It was a 4 mile round trip hike from our campground.
Thursday, September 2 - We decided to do a big loop hike through the Murrelet State Wilderness today. We took Miner's Ridge Trail, to Clintonia Trail to the James Irving Trail, for a total of 7 miles. We left at 9:30, so the first couple of hours we had the hike to ourselves. It was pretty amazing, one grove of big trees after another, and lots of quiet quiet hiking.
Friday, September 3 - Today we drove 101 down to Davison Road, a 5 mile mostly one lane dirt road that winds up through the woods to Gold Bluff Beach. We parked at the beach parking lot and got our bikes out to ride 2.5 miles to Fern Canyon. There is a very popular .6 mile loop along the canyon creek bed, over lots of wooden planks to keep you out of the creek. The ferns cover the canyon walls above making it a quite unique hike. Scenes from Jurassic Park were filmed here. We rode our bikes back to the RV and had lunch on the beach. We decided to hang out here through dinner, in hopes we would have an easy drive down the one lane road, since the park closes at sundown. We only met 3 cars, and luckily had no issues. At the bottom of the mountain, as we were turning back onto 101, there was a whole herd of Roosevelt Elk in the meadow. Was fun to sit and watch them for a bit.
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