Map of Redwood National and State Parks
PDF format map of Redwood National and State Parks, from the National Park Service (512 kb).
Orientation
The approach to Redwood National Park from the south is along US 101 from Eureka, a road which passes several other places of interest such as
Trinidad State Beach and the
Humboldt Lagoons State Park,
where deposition of narrow sandbanks has created three large coastal lakes, good for fishing and bird watching. The
national park begins just beyond, south of the small town of Orick, although most of its land lies either side of Redwood Creek and extends inland and about 10 miles south. Next, US 101 passes the
Prairie Creek Redwoods - the largest and most varied of the three state parks, this includes several miles of accessible beach and the nearby Fern Canyon, a beautiful sheer-walled ravine. Beyond, after another narrow section of the national park, the smaller
Del Norte Coast Redwoods has more groves, on hills that slope down steeply to pristine but largely inaccessible shoreline, with just a few hiking trails. The northernmost region is the
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, adjacent to the Smith River and 5 miles from Crescent City. Activities here are concentrated around the river, with swimming, rafting, picnicking and hiking along its banks all popular in summer, but there are also some longer trails into the redwood forests that cover the hills to the south.