Trees of Mystery

Today we explored a tourist area named Trees of Mystery. Paul Bunyan and Babe welcomed the visitors. After paying your fee, you walked up a trail viewing all kinds of wonderful Pacific redwoods, cedars, pines, hemlock....lots of greenery. At one point, you get on a gondola and ride up over the trees to an observation tower. On the return trip back to the starting point, there is some pretty amazing wooden sculptures.
This was a little gift shop/museum...more gift shop than museum but it had really nice hanging baskets as well as flowers blooming out front.
Those are ferns growing on the tree branches...FERNS!!!
If you look closely, there is actually a tree growing out of the branch of this tree named the Family Tree. The Family Tree has 12 different trees growing off its branches. Unbelievable!
Another tree with a passage way in the trunk. A little munchkin had a great time running from one side to the other and exploring the enterior of the tree.
We took a ride on a sky lift. It was really fun riding over the top of the trees. It certainly gave you a different perspective. At one point, we were high enough to see the ocean just over the tree tops. This was the view from the observation post at the top of the mountain. It was a bit foggy or the clouds were low...not sure the difference.

There was a wide variety of wooden sculptures and pictures along the trail on the return trip down the mountain.


After a lovely trip through some gigantic trees as well as a trip over the trees, we drove into Crescent City for some seafood, gasoline, a few groceries, then home again. Well Tuesday we leave for Oregon so more from your Happy Travelers later.