Name: Leiffer Loop
Rating: 4.3

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Family Friendly A short loop with some elevation and steeper grades but lots to explore including a couple benches commemorating Dorothy and Murray Leiffer Grove.

Description

Travel back in time on this loop trail that heads along a portion of the 19th-century Crescent City Plank Road as it heads into a canyon with access to the Ellsworth Loop Trail.

Old-growth redwoods rise above the forest floor, contributing to the numerous levels found in a nps.gov/media/video/view.ht…">climax forest.

Flora & Fauna

Hazel and vine maple with springtime blooms of clintonia, western burning bush, thimbleberry, red huckleberry, and western trillium and California bay and tanoak.