Hello, all the sites in J Smith campground have bear lockers. You can reserve a site up to six months in advance on reserveamerica.. Good luck with that… The only body of water would be the Smiths river that flows through the park. If you’re lucky and get a site on the river you can walk to it in about 30 seconds. Search up a map of the park campsitesand Scope it out. You will also see the car trails to the sites. It’s a very nice campground, but reservations go fast. I also recommend going to the website called redwoodhikes. The whole website is a plethora of information and clicking through it will take some time but you’ll learn a lot about the area and the other Redwood parks and hiking. Good luck!

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Hi Freckled, A lot of questions for you but will try to answer w/o them. Questions include time of year, for how long, do you like to hike, camp , do you mind driving. Is 1 day enough for the redwoods or do you want to do multiple days, are you planning on doing other things. Anyway, Char's answer is good (especially the covid part to check out) but have another suggestion. We don't fly when we visit the redwoods (we drive) but there are some incredible state/national parks there. We like to drive up and stay in trinidad (some nice little places to stay) which is a small town (but not far from either eureka or arcata where you could stay as well). This allows you to be within driving distance of Jed Smith, Del Norte, humboldt redwoods state park, prairie creek. Also this will allow you to visit the ocean parks as well. Hope this helps. k

This would be a great place for that. We did this in a one day trip from White City, OR to Crescent City and back. The trail was gentle and easy to walk. They also have a visitor center before the entrance on the right.

Never hugged any trees!!

Dress warm. On the coast and gets pretty chilly. We were there in September and it was in the 60's.