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Hello again family, friends and everyone:
We spent our 4th of July week-end in the Mendocino - Fort Bragg area on California’s Northern Coast. We stayed at Grandma Edna’s home in Willits, CA as she was vacationing in Edmonton, Canada visiting Irwin and other family members. Holly and I had the place to ourselves, thanks for the free lodging Edna, we watered the plants and left the place in good repair.
Russian Gulch, Van Damme and MacKerricher State Parks
Al & Holly Rodriguez2006-08-28 19:56:05
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Hello again family, friends and everyone:
We spent our 4th of July week-end in the Mendocino - Fort Bragg area on California’s Northern Coast. We stayed at Grandma Edna’s home in Willits, CA as she was vacationing in Edmonton, Canada visiting Irwin and other family members. Holly and I had the place to ourselves, thanks for the free lodging Edna, we watered the plants and left the place in good repair.
We loaded our new truck with our cross-over bikes (the old truck was stolen from a local K-Mart Shopping Center). These are bicycles that are designed for moderate mountain terrain and street use.
On our first day out, Saturday, we headed for the Russian Gulch State Park (cost $6 per vehicle for entry and good at all California State Parks for the day), just two miles north of the seaside town of Mendocino.
What a great park this is, we came for the hiking and biking, but, there is also camp grounds, diving, fishing, kayaking and canoeing.
During our hiking and biking we traveled through the Fern Canyon to the 36ft Russian Gulch Waterfalls and enjoyed just being out in nature and all the beauty
it offered, very exhilarating. After biking along the bike trail for five miles or so, we came to the hiking trail (no bikes allowed past this point) we secured our bikes for a two mile hike through the Fern Canyon Trail to the Russian Gulch Waterfalls which drops into a rocky fern grotto. WOW!!, such beauty, we could live there!
After spending some tranquil time at the falls and communing with nature, we made our way back to where the bikes were secured. Rode back to the car park area and decided to visit Van Damme State Park, just several miles south on Highway 1. There we would enjoy another Fern Trail, this one crosses Little River dozens of times. The bike trail at Van Damme was several miles into the forest and has an option for an add-on hike and mountain bike ride, however,
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