4/30-5/7 - Village Camper Inn, Crescent City, CA

If you want to see redwood, this is the place.  The combined National and State Park visitor center is located here, and there are coastal redwoods from here, south down the coast to Big Lagoon!

view from the lighthouse

the lighthouse

We first took a tour of the local lighthouse, which is only open to visitors during low tide!  You have to walk across to it, and we learned about this from a couple in our campground who are the docents this month.  They have a waiting list for the lighthouse keeper job!

This is the Cathedral Tree.  Mom died, but the clones live on.

Redwoods are taaaaaallll!

We also took a trip to Klamath, to the Trees of Mystery.  They have a very extensive Native American Museum in the visitor center here.

Steve found a restaurant with soup in sourdough bread bowls!  The dock outside the restaurant was a favorite sleeping place for sea lions!





We took a couple of days to explore the redwoods; from Jedediah Smith State Park in the North to Elk Valley in the South.

Even rotted in the middle, the tree is still alive.

Steve by a downed tree

Nap Time!

Elk Valley

Top of the tree

Bottom of the tree.

Middle of the tree