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Founders Tree – The Founders Grove loop from Eel River

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Founders Tree – The Founders Grove loop from Eel River

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(17)

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Founders Tree – The Founders Grove loop from Eel River

02:06

33.2km

330m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: June 20, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 3.57 km for 118 m

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3.62 km

Founders Tree

Highlight • Natural Monument

The Founders Tree Coast Redwood stands in Founders Grove, not far from Avenue of the Giants, and marks a worthwhile story. There is 1.3 miles of trail, but the main attraction is located near the parking lot. The nature of the area makes the word hiking more appropriate than hiking. The place is quite crowded in July and August but has its charm that makes it difficult to miss this time of year.

The circular hiking trail requires your attention so that you don't leave it. But absolutely worth it because you are surrounded by giant trees. Fallen trees give you a sense of dimension, from root to top.

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7.62 km

30-foot Flood Marker - Weot, Avenue of the Giants

Highlight • Monument

The Eel River has regularly high floods, typically in spring. Every few years it can be surprisingly high. In 1964 it exceeded 30 above the road level, the marker on top of the pole helps to visualize this

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10.3 km

Humboldt Redwoods State Park Visitor Center ⛺ Burlington Campground

Highlight • Rest Area

Campground, Ranger Station and Visitor Center located in the middle of the Avenue of the Giants

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11.1 km

Fleischmann Grove

Highlight • Forest

16.6 km

Shrine Drive-Through Tree — Myers Flat

Highlight • Natural Monument

One of the most iconic and enduring hallmarks of American roadside kitsch is the drive-thru tree — only possible with the massive scale of California's redwoods. Of two previously known tree tunnels in Central California, the one in Tuolumne Grove is through a dead tree, and the Wawona tree in Yosemite fell in 1969. However, there are three drive-through redwoods still on California's Redwood Coast, all of which are operated as tourist attractions. This particular tourist trap is an essentially dead and mostly broken-off redwood tree whose demise probably was accelerated by the cutting or enlargement of a large hole through its trunk and the continuous parade of cars and people stomping on its sensitive root system.

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29.6 km

The Founders Grove

Highlight • Forest

Beautiful Grove of redwoods with the Founders Tree, dedicated to the founders of the Save-The-Redwoods League in 1931

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33.2 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

32.5 km

550 m

167 m

Surfaces

25.5 km

7.40 km

166 m

127 m

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Highest point (140 m)

Lowest point (50 m)

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Friday 26 June

18°C

11°C

42 %

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Founders Tree

30-foot Flood Marker - Weot, Avenue of the Giants

Humboldt Redwoods State Park Visitor Center ⛺ Burlington Campground

Fleischmann Grove

Shrine Drive-Through Tree — Myers Flat

The Founders Grove

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