Portola Redwood State Park is one of the many great and awesome state parks in California. It is located in the San Mateo County and covered with tall redwood trees that stretch upto 300 feet high. The vegetation also includes Douglas fir and Oak.
It offers an amazing hiking trails which is almost 18 miles of stretch. It is a combination of various smaller trails that are interconnected. Two beautiful creeks, Fall creek and Pescadera creek are main water sources in the state park.
Scenic view of the Redwoods
We camped for two nights here and had some great time. Day 1 just involved checking in and setting up our campsite and the real fun was day 2. We again had to change the site ... A bummer we couldn't manage to get a site for 2 nights.
All packed in we went ahead for our hike the next morning. Picked up the Old Tree Trail and then the Slate Creek trail upto Page Mill and then back via the summit trail. Had some great hike up and down of about 5.5 miles.
All drained by the end of the day, we were again setup for the night. Kids were down soon after the tiring day and we had a relaxing campfire.
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