Just past the Van Damme State Park campsites and a little less than a mile east of the Van Damme State Park Visitor Center and beach is the Fern Canyon Scenic Trail Trailhead. There is a parking area and two pit toilets, with additional restrooms in the nearby campsites. If the parking lot is full, you can park back at the beach and walk about a mile along the road. For this Fern Canyon Trail, you do not need a permit or to make a reservation (there is another one in a different part of northern California that shares the same name where you do need both of those things). From the trailhead you hike gradually uphill along an easy trail and over bridges, through a redwood forest, along Little River until you reach the pygmy forest. Fern Canyon can be quite wet, so shoes that you don't mind getting wet are a must!

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Location: Little River, Mendocino County, California, United States

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