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options - one a five-mile round trip, and a three miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The
shorter trail we took that brought us to the highest point in Jackson Demonstration State
beach in less than a half-hour. Forest brings you to a rare pygmy forest with
The longer trail features a self-guided na- decades-old knee-high trees including Pygmy
ture trail called the Ecological Staircase, a se- Cypress and pines.
ries of five ancient terraces formed by waves, The shorter dirt path we took, shaded by
glaciers and tectonic activity that stretches lanky Bishop pines, zig-zagged down terraces
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