Van Damme State Park is a 1,831acre park near the town of Little River in Mendocino County. On the inland side, the park has numerous hiking trails that wind along the Little River, and some superb campsites. On the oceanside, there is a Little River beach, which is a launch point for kayaks. Some kayak tours take visitors to the sea caves nearby.

Also part of the park is Spring Ranch, a 160acre meadow on top of the bluff north of Little River. The ranch contains several restored 1860 barns. A boardwalk trail goes through a Pygmy Forest, with amazing stunted pine trees, cypress and rhododendrons, which had to survive on the poor soil of the marshy habitat.

b>Address: Van Damme State Park, 8001 CA-1, Little River, California 95456, Phone: 707-937-0851

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