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Little Hendy Grove

Grove in Hendy Woods State Park, Coast Ranges near Philo, CA

Little Hendy does have quite a few large trees; seen from Highway 128 near Gowan’s, it actually looks more impressive than Big Hendy. Unfortunately, its dense understory and lack of groundcover means that isn’t nearly as attractive. The understory mostly consists of small bay laurel trees, which is a little unusual for a redwood grove; however, from a distance the bay laurels don’t look much different from the more common tanoak understory. There’s no ground cover except for an occasional fern and in some years a light, rather dried-out-looking sprinkling of redwood sorrel. The trail is a wide depression that looks like it used to be a road; often its coating of redwood needles is washed away and it becomes kind of dusty. An open apple orchard is visible just to the left, and traffic noise from Highway 128 drifts into the grove.

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