Fall Creek Unit
Fall Creek Unit
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Hiking Trails • Scenic Walking Areas
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CADreamin
Felton, CA587 contributions
Mar 2019 • Family
The Fall Creek unit of Henry Cowell State Park can be a little tricky to find but it's worth it. Much of the park sits in a ravine-type environment so you have valleys of lush ferns, small creeks and waterfalls and, of course, towering redwoods. You can hike for as little or as long as you want. Be sure to visit the lime kilns and, if possible, the old barrel mill site. Once in a while they offer a docent-led hike through the area and that's a treat.
Written July 15, 2019
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GaleMc
Felton, CA20 contributions
Sep 2018 • Friends
The Lime Kiln trail is our favorite summer hike. From the parking lot you drop into the cool shade of the redwoods and follow the stream on a picture perfect woodland trail. You'll reach a beautiful photo-op bridge, where the trail gives you a choice of right or left. Go right to continue following a fork of the stream on your left. Eventually you will reach a junction that by turning left will lead you back around to the Lime Kilns. Here there are the interesting remnants of the lime production industry that helped to build San Francisco, with educational signage and explanations. By continuing along the trail beside the river, now on your right, you will return to the photo-op bridge, and back along the way you first came. At leisurely pace, this is roughly a 3-mile, 1-3/4
hour visit.
Written March 5, 2019
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CaliforniaFootloose
California18 contributions
Mar 2017 • Couples
The hikes in this part are along a beautiful stream with lovely ferns and other local flora. Visited the Lime Kilns ruins where they mines lime and baked it before transporting it out to Santa Cruz a hundred years ago. Great day hike.
Written March 13, 2017
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Libi K
Santa Cruz, CA272 contributions
Nov 2016 • Solo
Fall Creek is a great place to hike and chill - esp in the hot summer time. Always a magical place. the hike can be as strenuous or as easy as you want! an the Creek is always enchanting!!!
Written January 17, 2017
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Ranjeet T
Cupertino, CA3 contributions
Jul 2020
More of a sense of adventure in the Fall Creek Unit, almost no one on the upper trails to Big Ben, lots of pools and log bridges to explore.
Written August 7, 2020
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wmerry2016
Gainesville, FL310 contributions
Sep 2018 • Couples
A great hiking spot with wonderful scenery along the way. We had such a good time exploring some downed giant trees, and the river.
Written September 18, 2018
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