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Montgomery Trail
Trail
on
South Fork Big River
,
Montgomery Creek
in
Coast Ranges
,
Montgomery Woods State Nature Reserve
near
Willits
,
CA
The trail starts off as a dirt road that climbs through a rather mundane redwood and tanoak forest alongside a burbling creek. After a third of a mile, the trail crests and then descends slightly to Montgomery Flat. At this point, the forest changes dramatically, from nice but rather ordinary redwood uplands into a classic, cathedral-like alluvial flat forest. The thick mats of sound-absorbing redwood needles on the ground make the grove strikingly quiet. The grove is tucked into a little glen with sides that rise steeply and abruptly, cutting it off from the outside world and giving it a uniquely sheltered feel. The quiet isolation of the grove, combined with the remarkably lush vegetation, turns it into a little paradise.
Just as the trail enters the grove, it passes through a large area where the ground cover has been worn away by foot traffic. Although it’s hard to tell, this is actually a trail intersection and is both the beginning and end of the loop trail. The loop trail winds around the perimeter of the grove, sometimes elevated above the marshy alluvial flat at its center.
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Length
1.6mi
Surface
Two-track Road
(1,297ft)
Unknown
(1.3mi)
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South Fork Big River
River
Montgomery Creek
Creek
Ecology
Northern California Coastal Forests
Ecoregion
Coast Range
Ecoregion
Coastal Franciscan Redwood Forest
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