Highway access → arrival
Mill Creek Campground Road
Arrival: Trestle Loop trailhead across from the campground campfire center.
Approach: Turn from US-101 onto signed Mill Creek Campground Road in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park. Use authorized visitor parking and walk to the marked trail by the campfire center.
Seasonal campground gate controls vehicle access. No highway-shoulder parking alternative is asserted when the gate is closed.
Official directions & access ↗A roughly one-mile campground loop following traces of a former Mill Creek logging railroad through second-growth redwood, spruce, maple, and alder forest.
Access details
- Parking
- Start at the marked trailhead across from the campfire center when Mill Creek Campground is open; no separate parking pin is supplied.
- Viewpoint
- The route interprets railroad traces and recovering forest beside Mill Creek.
- Trail
- NPS lists a one-mile loop with some steep non-level grades.
- Public water access
- No maintained swimming or launch entrance is represented.
- Water conditions
- The campground road is seasonally gated; check current access.
Plan from the official source
Redwood National and State Parks is the manager or primary source for this entry. Check its current page for changing hours, fees, reservations, road restrictions, and closures.
Open NPS trails north of the Klamath River ↗