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Welcome to the Rock Creek Nature trail in the
yellow pine belt forest, a transitional zone through
which Rock Creek flows. Rock Creek is the home
of many animals and plants and even man has
lived and worked here in the past.
The trail is cool and shady and there aren’t any mountains or
hills to climb.
The length of the trail is about % of a mile and the journey
should only take 45 minutes to an hour depending on how much
you stop to look and listen.
To help you enjoy the trail there are wooden posts with numbers
on them; they will help you understand what you are seeing.
The trail makes a complete loop so you will finish where you
Start.
Remember you are a visitor in the forest so please leave it as
you have found it—‘‘Beautiful’’.
1. Alongside many trails throughout the lower Sierra is a plant
commonly known as trail marker plant. This grows to a height of
only a few inches and its leaf is shaped like an arrowhead. Any
slight breeze will make the trail marker plant flutter showing its
lighter colored underside marking the trail.
As you walk along the trail, stop often to enjoy the
surroundings of the streamside forest. The forest environment invites you to look, listen, smell, and feel through
your senses something of the many kinds of forest life.
As you walk along the trail, stop often to enjoy the surroundings of the streamside forest. The forest environment invites you
to look, listen, smell, and feel through your senses something of
the many kinds of forest life.
2. Bigleaf maples grow mainly in areas such as
Rock Creek on shady slopes along creek bottoms.
With the onset of the chilly nights of autumn the
bigleaf becomes the most colorful tree along the
trail, turning a brilliant yellow-orange. Elsewhere
in the west, this maple is harvested as one of the
few commercial hardwoods that grows on the
pacific coast.