MUIR WOODS

I had taken some of my girls from my girl scout troop up to San Francisco for a few days.  We had a lot of fun.

One of the first places we stopped at was MUIR WOODS.  It's a beautiful place to spend hours at just taking in all of Mother Natures beautiful gifts to us.

It's located about 11 miles North of the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Muir Woods is the home to the tallest Redwood Trees in the world.  They are so tall that it's often hard to see the tops of the trees. 

The smell is so wonderful!  It just smells so fresh there! 

They have different trails you can walk.  You can do a nice easy 1/2 mile walk if you like or you could go for one of the harder trails that take around 3 hours to complete.  Or you could go on one of the other ones that fall somewhere in between. 

No matter which one you take, you are garenteed to love it and see some of the most lovelyest sights you have ever seen.

I loved how many of the trees had a bright green moss on growing on them.  It looked almost like velvet.

Some of the tree trunks make fun photo locations.

We all loved every minute we spent there and wished we could have spent even more time but of course we had so much to see and do that we could only stay a few hours there.

We learned a lot there too.  Things like how forest fires are actually good for the trees because they burn all the dead stuff off the bottom of the forest and allows seeds to reach the soil to grow even more trees.

In this photo, the tree in the middle got burned.  All around it are trees that popped up from the seeds from the burning tree. 

This is also the location where the famous photographer, Ansel Adams, went to take his black and white photographs that now sell for thousands.

Muir Woods was also in several movies.  The Return of the Jedi, Rise of Plant of the Apes, The Lost World, Jurassic Park and Outbreak are some of the places you may have seen this beautiful forest.

If you ever get a chance to visit here, please do.  It's a great place that is often over looked but I promise you, if you take the time to go here, you will not be sorry.