The Ecological Staircase

Trail in Jug Handle State Natural Reserve · Mendocino County, California (near Fort Bragg / Mendocino Coast)

4.4 mi · Loop.

A 5-mile round-trip hike climbing through marine terraces formed by 500,000 years of geologic uplift, passing coastal prairie, redwood forest, and a rare pygmy forest of stunted cypress and pine.

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