Crags

Castle Crags State Park has lots of low-elevation, south-facing acreage, making it a great four season hiking spot. With few exceptions I've been able to hike there in every month of the year. This site has information on trails and hikes in and around the Park, as well as an archives section of hikes I did from 2014 to 2017.

There are hiking possibilities in the adjoining Wilderness Area, and you can download a map of campground area trails, as well as a larger scale map showing more trails in the Park itself.

iNaturalist.org has a site showing just about anything that grows or crawls around in the area.

Photos I've taken of the local landscape in the Park as well as the surrounding area can be seen on my Images page.

A page from the National Weather Service with local weather info is available online, and if you're wondering about road conditions, CalTrans has a page with a webcam showing the freeway on the north end of Dunsmuir (about 6 miles north of the Park entrance) and another page showing all of the webcams in the northern end of the state.