Hike Damnation Creek Trail, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California

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The Damnation Creek Trail in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California, offers a steep drop (1100-foot elevation drop) through a virgin redwood forest to a hidden rocky beach on the Pacific coast. The trail is often shrouded in fog from the summer marine layer. Due to it beingon a west-facing hill, this a great late-afternoon hike. At this point other hikes in the park often has the sun is too low to illuminate the groves. Even though the trail is near the ocean there are no ocean views due to the dense forest. Near the end of the trail is a clifftop view above the mouth of Damnation Creek. Getting down to the beach can be tricky so check out thelevel of the tide before deciding to go to the beach. The pullout for the trailhead is at mile marker 16 on the west side of Highway 101 (about 8 miles south of Crescent City). It's a little hard to find since it starts from an unmarked dirt pullout.

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