51st Stop - Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (Klamath, CA)
Blog Post #62 - Written April 13, 2026 Stay: September 12-14, 2025 So, when people talk about visiting the Redwoods, you might need to ask "which ones?", because there is ONE Redwood National Park and THREE Redwood State Parks. They are all part of one system, but I now know there are many different areas to visit. Our first Redwood stop was Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. We pulled into our campground, which definitely had posted old pictures on their website. It was mostly vacant and almost looked abandoned, except for the construction crew that was borrowing the campground office. in fact, you had to drive through the active construction site to get into the campground; Gary thought I had led us astray with this one haha. Luckily, there were a few other campers that showed us the ropes and shared the best "hot tip" ever: to check out the mouth of the Klamath river (read to the bottom to find out why!). We felt a little bad for the un...