It's an old-fashioned slow-down-and-look road; Avenue of the Giants, through the redwoods 5 hours north of San Francisco.

Sunset | August 1, 1984 | Copyright

It's an old-fashioned slow-down-and-look road

"Scenic Alternate.' The arrow on the green highway sign points down a narrow off-ramp that disappears into a dark grove of trees. The temptation, especially after the hot, 5-hour drive north from San Francisco, is to stay on the smooth lanes of U.S. Highway 101 that rip north from Garberville toward Eureka.

Indeed, little of the freeway traffic appears to take the turnoff. And yet this particular alternative--the Avenue of the Giants--passes through some of the West's largest and most spectacular stands of coast ...

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