Falling in love with a famous forest in California

The Fern Canyon in Redwoods National Park, California was where a movie and a documentary were once filmed. — dpa

Your feet will get wet, your car will need washing and you won’t mind. That’s just one measure of what awaits on the short, scenic hike through Fern Canyon in Humboldt County’s Prairie Creek Redwood State Park in California in the United States.

The Fern Canyon Loop Trail, which neighbours Gold Bluffs Beach, measures barely a mile. The altitude change is only about 46m. But the path takes you up a narrow canyon into a primordial jumble of greenery between walls that rise 15m to 24m on each side, nearly straight up.