Travel Itineraries Humboldt Adventure Guides. Back to Previous Page. Overview Overview. After about a half-mile you come to a nicely landscaped residential area. An interpretive spur trail along this route is too narrow and steep for wheelchairs. Follow the sidewalk west along Murray Road to the parking lot, where the trail begins again.
The next section, from Murray Road to Hiller Park. After crossing Knox Cove Avenue, the trail travels below an embankment that is lush with ferns and equisetum for about a half-mile to Hiller Park. Hiller Park to School Road. I arrived early in the day, so I ventured onto the dirt trail that begins immediately past the playground.
Within 50 feet the path narrowed to three feet, but a meadow lush with wild radish, mustard, and grasses swaying in the wind beckoned me farther. At a fork I stayed left and had to carefully travel down the raised center of the path; at times, some of my wheels were off the ground.
After passing through a stand of Sitka spruce and salmonberry, I arrived at a lovely viewing platform atop bluffs overlooking the Mad River estuary and the ocean beyond. The other trails may offer limited access in dry weather.
Houses along one side of the trail are somewhat obscured by bushes, while trees on the other side block any views of the ocean. Fleabane carpeted the ground on my visit. After you cross School Road, you travel in the street on Fischer Avenue for a few hundred yards. Switch Back near Mad River. Bridge at Letz Avenue Parking Lot.
Clam Beach Trail Sign. Entrance to Hiller Park. Historical Railroad Display. Knox Cover Road Entrance. Funding and Partnerships Funding provided by: County of Humboldt California State Coastal Conservancy The State Coastal Conservancy provided funding assistance, technical expertise, as well as non-financial and was a key partner in the planning, design and completion of the Hammond Trail.
Beach Wheelchairs. McKay Community Forest. Humboldt Bay Trail. Hammond Trail. Way County Park. Big Lagoon County Park. Clam Beach County Park. Crab Park. Freshwater Park. You'll enjoy panoramic views of the ocean, cross an accessible bridge over the Mad River, pass a park with a playground, and share the trail with lots of cyclists and people walking dogs.
The Hammond Trail is a segment of the 1,mile California Coastal Trail, which when completed will run the length of the state, from Oregon to Mexico. Although the Hammond Trail is continuous, at times it requires travel on sidewalks, on roads very light traffic , and across streets.
Most of this trail has been built on the route of a now-defunct rail line. Excellent signage throughout indicates the trail route; interpretive panels at various trailheads show distances and locations of restrooms and parking.
Hiller Park has designated parking on firm dirt and gravel in front of the playground, but it's not van-accessible with striped access aisles.
Across the park road, in front of the ball field, is accessible parking on asphalt. Clam Beach day-use parking, opposite the trailhead, is on hard-packed dirt and has ruts and no striping. It may be very muddy in wet weather. Murray Road has designated parking but there's no access aisle. Street parking only at School Road trailhead. There is a wheelchair-accessible restroom at Hiller Park and accessible picnic tables at the west end of the Murray Road parking lot the tabletop here is extremely high and by the playground at Hiller Park these are on concrete pads but to reach them you travel on firm grass.
Starting from Clam Beach, the first two and a half miles of this part of the trail parallel Highway Within 50 feet you cross an accessible bridge over Strawberry Creek. After climbing two gentle hills, you come to a resting place with a bench and get your first glimpse of the ocean, beyond a wetland dune hollow, or swale. About one mile out, and after climbing one of the steepest sections of the entire trail, the surface becomes hard-packed dirt with some large-size gravel for about a half-mile.
As you continue climbing this long stretch, you come to an overlook. From here you have views along the rocky shore from Clam Beach to Trinidad Head, with scattered sea stacks offshore. You continue past a parking lot not accessible from the trail to a small eucalyptus grove, then travel in the road a short distance and through a wooded riparian area.
After about a half-mile you come to a nicely landscaped residential area. An interpretive spur trail along this route is too narrow and steep for wheelchairs. Follow the sidewalk west along Murray Road to the parking lot, where the trail begins again.
The next section, from Murray Road to Hiller Park 0. After crossing Knox Cove Avenue, the trail travels below an embankment that is lush with ferns and equisetum for about a half-mile to Hiller Park.
From Hiller Park, within 50 feet the path narrows to three feet. At the fork, stay left and carefully travel down the raised center of the path. After passing through a stand of Sitka spruce and salmonberry, you arrive at a lovely viewing platform atop bluffs overlooking the Mad River estuary and the ocean beyond. The other trails may offer limited access in dry weather.
After you cross School Road, you travel in the street on Fischer Avenue for a few hundred yards. As mentioned on the Access Northern California website, Hiller Park is an alternate place to begin or end the wheelchair accessible route. As mentioned in the Access Northern California routes, the approach to this bridge may be too steep for manual wheelchair users. Clam Beach Dr. Reviews Sort by:. Elijah Rosenbaum. October 21, Walking Flooded Muddy Over grown.
Michael Mullenniex. October 3, Lexi Smith. September 4, Walking Great! Off trail Over grown Private property. Sarah Ryan. July 4, Mary Ardapple Dierker. June 21, Restorative time!
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