Hike description: 8-9 miles, 1500 feet climbing. 3.75 hours.
This hike starts from Felton’s San Lorenzo High School parking lot. Fall Creek Park is park of Henry Cowell State Park. The High School trail starts behind the left corner of the bleacher seats of the football field. The road is not marked and passes the childcare center. This map that is posted on the Redwood Hikes website is great for tracing this hike. Take the High School Trail and head up Ridge Trail to Truck Trail. After hiking on the Truck Trail .75 miles I took a side trail on the right through an unmarked metal gate. This was a nice hike for about a half mile and then the road started going down hill sharply so I returned to Truck Trail. I explored off-trail to the left but the trail ended and it was surrounded by posion oak. Back on Truck Trail to the Big Ben Trail. The Truck Trail climbs and then Big Ben Trail heads back down to Fall Creek. Instead of going up to Big Ben I headed back down Fall Creek Trail past the Barrel Mill Site to The South Ridge Trail. I went past the Lime Kilms and connected back with the High School Trail. Hike would have been 40 minutes shorter without the side trips.
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