Mill Valley’s Muir Woods and Sonoma’s Armstrong may get all the glory, but you may have never heard of these gorgeous redwood groves hidden around the bay.
While large redwoods meccas like Henry Cowell, Reinhardt and Sonoma’s Armstrong get all the fame, the Bay Area’s full of intriguing microbursts of redwoods thanks to antilogging efforts and aficionados planting trees 100 years ago. You can be walking among scrub and eucalyptus, note a shaded gap in the trail and enter a wonderland of massive, sky-kissing redwoods – there’s nothing more magical.
These spots exist mostly in quietude thanks to stamp-sized footprints and winding setbacks that filter out a lot of tourists . Here are a few lesser-known colonies to explore, small enough to do in under an hour but rich enough to satisfy your redwoods thirst for a long time:One of local nature’s most overlooked gems – and that’s not just personal bias due to this author’s name – is tucked behind UC Berkeley on winding fire trails.
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