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Bald Hills Road leads southeastward from Highway 101 along the Bald Hills ridge line and ends at the Klamath River. The turn off for this road is one and a half miles north of Orick. Within three miles of Highway 101 are the access roads/trailheads for Redwood Creek Trail and Lady Bird Johnson Grove. Within these three miles the road climbs 1,300 feet on a few steep switchbacks. This 15% grade is not recommended for trailers or RVs.
Redwood National and State Parks has four units: Prairie Creek, Del Norte, and Jedediah Smith State Parks, and Redwood National Park. The name \"Redwood National Park\" is often used to refer to all four units together, but officially it refers to the Redwood National Park unit and does not include the state parks. This page is about the Redwood National Park unit.
The three state parks were acquired beginning in the 1920s, when this area was still minimally affected by logging. By the time Redwood National Park was acquired beginning in the 1960s, most of the really spectacular old growth had either been logged or purchased for the state parks. What\'s more, environmental regulations mostly prevent new trails from being constructed in pristine old growth. As a result, most of the park\'s trails pass either through small remnant patches of old growth, through second growth, or through areas that lack redwoods altogether.
On the other hand, the park does has much more of a wilderness feel than the state parks. While the state park trails often run within earshot of busy roads, many of Redwood National Park\'s trails have no traffic noise whatsoever and few other hikers. Providing a wilderness experience was in fact one of the goals of establishing the park, and in that regard the park has been very successful.
The main body of Redwood National Park is a huge swath of the Redwood Creek basin at the south end of the park. This basin includes one of the park\'s best-known features, the Tall Trees Grove. In this grove is the Libbey Tree, which in the 1960s was, at 368 feet tall, the w
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