This morning we say goodbye to the giant Redwoods. We are truly sad to be leaving them. The trails were all wonderful and the trees in all of the parks were spectacular. This area is one of the highlights of our journey. The Ancient Redwoods RV Park was quiet, beautiful and peaceful. Today it was a beautiful but tough drive along Hwy 299. The drive was about 4 ½ hours mostly through mountains with many steep uphill and downhill grades with low speed switchbacks. The coach handled it great though the worst grade took us down to about 30 MPH by the summit. We ate lunch at Nugget Restaurant in Weaverville. It was clearly a local favorite and the burger was outstanding. The second half of the drive followed the Trinity River and was beautiful. We checked in at Mountain Gate RV park north of Redding. Reasonably nice and good price, but close to highway. Super warm today with high around 80. Supposed to be colder and rainy tomorrow.
We ran chores to a Credit Union, Camping World, and Walmart. We ate dinner at Chipotle. We reviewed our site-seeing options. We are really close to the popular Shasta Lake and we are reasonably close to Lassen Volcanic National Park, but when I checked tonight, nearly everything in the park is closed for winter conditions.