Boy Scout Tree Trailhead

13 Best Hikes in California

"So named because a troop leader supposedly discovered this 2,000-year-old double-trunked redwood in the 1930s, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is Northern California at its finest. Located in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park along the coast (you can often hear foghorns from Crescent City) and near the border with Oregon, the five-mile in-and-out trail weaves through ancient redwood groves and lush, temperate rain forest terrain carpeted with lichens and ferns to a small, but beautiful, waterfall. The park is home to nearly a tenth of the old-growth redwoods that remain in the world today, so you won't see something like it anywhere else." - Travel + Leisure Editors