Fern Canyon is a canyon in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (managed in cooperation with Redwood National Park) in northern California, USA. Grand Canyon, Arizona canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Established in 1968 from unprotected land as well as small portions of existing state parks, Redwood National Park is a United States National Park on the northern coast of California between Eureka and Crescent City. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq. ...
A hiking trail follows the canyon, though it is not one if the most visited areas of the park. The ferns covering the 10-15m sheer walls of the canyon give a prehistoric feel leading to its being used as a location for The Lost World: Jurassic Park and BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. A trail, in the most general sense, is any linear route for travel. ... Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ... The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 movie which is a sequel to the blockbuster Jurassic Park. ... Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. ...
Summary: FernCanyon is a very narrow, very steep canyon, covered in lush ferns.
After a few bends of the stream, the canyon gets extremely narrow (fallen trees bridge bridge the top of the canyon), and extremely green.
The beauty of the canyon is listening to the birds and the water, while you stand in the middle of the canyon, between two cliff faces covered in ferns.
Approach: The canyon is quite a long distance from the main park visitor centre and reached by the 30 mile Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, some of which is quite winding and steep, and the journey takes about 1 hour.
There is then a steep ascent to pass above a sheer cliff at the start of the canyon, followed by a more gradual descent back to water level, then a flat section of several hundred yards through bushes to a beach, beyond which the water covers the gorge from wall to wall.
FernCanyon: A scenic, if little visited location is FernCanyon, a narrow tributary 2 miles from the start of Santa Elena Canyon.
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