"__Day 1__\nWe drove down from [Harris Beach State Park](https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=58) in southern Oregon and stopped at a visitor center in Crescent City, hoping to pick up a national park pass. They do not have any passes there (aside from a few select areas, they do not charge any day use fees), but they do have cute banana slug stuffed animals that our child could not resist. Any animal that starts with an \"s\" is a winner in our book: we have sharks, snakes, snails, and now a slug! They also gave us some good advice about driving the van on some of the rougher roads (good news was that they had just done repairs on Howland Hill Road, which leads to a number of hikes in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park). \n\nNext, we we visited [Trees of Mystery](https://treesofmystery.net/) and wandered around there for a bit. Our child loves gondolas and tree walks so he had a lot of fun and enjoyed going around this more than some of our less commercial hikes. The parking there worked well for us (we even ate lunch in the parking lot -- later we saw some picnic tables towards the outskirts). \n\nAfterwards, we drove back to Crescent City, stopped at the Walmart there to pick up some new sunglasses and an additional set of RV levelers and then headed over to try our hand at Howland Hill Road by hiking the 1/2 mile [Stout Memorial Grove trail](https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/stout-grove-trail.htm) and stayed at an RV place nearby.\n\nWe would have optimized this better, but had hoped to go to Oregon Caves and had to rearrange our plans.\n\n__Day 2__\nAfter feeling like we could handle Howland Hill Road from our short experience the day before, we did [Grove of Titans](https://www.nps.gov/places/got.htm). This was a nice hike that didn't get too many complaints from our son. So we pressed our luck with the [Boy Scout Tree Trail](https://www.nps.gov/places/boyscouttreetrail.htm). This was most certainly pushing it. If it wasn't for (1) a fallen tree near the start of the hike that our kiddo had crawled on at the beginning and wanted us to emulate at the end, (2) the first banana slug we had ever seen, and (3) cliff bars at the turn around point, I don't know if we would have made it. \n\nThat night we stayed at [Jedediah Smith campground](https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/jedediah-smith-campground.htm).\n\n__Day 3__\nNext up was the Newton B Drury Scenic Drive. We made a few of the stops ([Ah-Pah trail](https://www.nps.gov/places/ahpahtrail.htm), corkscrew tree, and big tree). Then, we made the drive to [Fern Canyon](https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/ferncanyon.htm). This was the most treacherous drive, yet we had hot heard any warnings about it. Tons of potholes. Very windy. Eventually driving through a stream. There's also a fee for that area of the park. Despite all of this, we all had a nice time. There's water to walk through, which makes it fun for the littles.\n\nWe wrapped up the day hiking to [Trillium Falls](https://www.nps.gov/places/trilliumfallstrail.htm) and spent the night at [Elk Prarie campground](https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/elk-prairie-campground.htm).\n\n__Day 4__\nFor our last morning, we decided to hike the [Lady Bird Johnson Grove trail](https://www.nps.gov/places/lbjtrailhead.htm) and then headed south towards Arcata.\n\nAll in all, we felt like it was the right amount of time for us. We got to do a number of hikes and see a lot of tall trees!"