🥾Fun 8 miles Hike 🍁 Maple Falls 🌊 The Forest 🌲of Nisene Marks🏞️

Hello Nature Lovers, Let's meet new friends, go for green exercises a Wellness Hike, enjoy the nature and the beauty of the healing mountains and redwood trees forests for our physical health and mental well-being😇

Off the beaten path, The Forest of Nisene Marks is a refreshing retreat from the busy towns and beaches along Highway 1 near Santa Cruz. Its dense second- and third-growth redwood forest rises from near sea level to steep coastal mountains.

The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park is a state park of CA, protecting a secondary forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Almost all of today’s redwood forest was clear-cut in a 40-year logging frenzy from 1883 to 1923.

Four-fifths of the park is covered in dense redwood forest. Douglas firs grow among redwoods. Include: alders, maples, and cottonwoods near creeks; tanoaks in the understory of redwoods; and Pacific madrone, CA bay, and several oak species.

Bridge Creek Trail to Maple Falls is a 11 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail. The trail starts out easy and quickly changes to moderate. It goes through dense redwood forest, steep trails, canyons, bridges and a couple of river crossings hopping over rocks. It gets a bit challenging in some points especially towards the end as you get close to the waterfall.

The Forest of Nisene Marks State ParK
*Meetup: 9:00am @ parking lot Porter Family Picnic Area about 2.2 miles from entrance gate, No internet cell phone connection inside park
GPS: https://goo.gl/maps/TppcKNc1FAaTPXiE9
**Hike time: 9:30am

*Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message not on the message board. Thank you! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/m256rb

Park: $8 per vehicle day-use fee
Level: Moderate + challenging!
Time: 3.5-5 hours
Length: 8 miles parking all the way to the end parking lot
*10 miles parking from entrance gate parking lot
Elevation gain: 1,000ft+
Route: Out & Back+ Loop
Dog: You'll need to leave pups at home — dogs aren't allowed on this trail.

Wear Hiking shoes
Bring Smiles for Miles, a lot of Water, Jacket, Lunch, Snacks, Hiking poles

Optional after our hike late Lunch/early Dinner place coming soon...

*Requested contribution suggested amount of $5-$20 keep the club going!
​*Note: Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. To support/keep our group alive and active, You can help! Dr.Heidi kindly asks for a contribution, accepting cash in person or Venmo *before the event ( No phone service on the trailhead) Please take a few minutes to contribute the link to Venmo
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Your contribution will help us cover our costs and make our Meetups going even better.

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

*DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system, or if you've been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19.

*LIABILITY WAIVER: The event host/organizer is not for everyone's emergency or medical services. By signing up for the wellness hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

*Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.

If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 10 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
*Please don't just walk in Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝