Started at Long Ridge Open Space Preserve on Skyline Blvd and hiked down into Portola Redwoods State Park to see the Peters Creek Redwood Grove. It's one of the few old growth groves in the area.

Lots of large blowdowns in Wilderness.

Start from the parking lot and either go clockwise with the good stuff first or go counter clockwise and save the Mine for last. We went clockwise. The trails are pretty well marked, there are rock guidelines on some spots and Rock cairns to let you know your staying on trail but I am glad that I was following a prior track because coming up the hill back towards lucky boy vista the trail can be pretty tough to follow. We just did our best to stay on rocks and sand and off any plant life. This is a reason it might be easier to do the hike counter-clockwise. There is also a steep little stretch that is downhill when going clockwise and uphill when counter-clockwise and with the loose rock on some parts, it may be easier to go uphill(another reason to go counter-clockwise) We started on the trail past the bathroom to the queen mine and pretty quickly got to the mine area. Really cool stuff all around the mine, including the old housing areas and the mining equipment. Once you get through there you head down into a little valley then begin to head up to the highest point of the loop. You will get up to the top and then begin the hike down, this is the steep spot with some loose rock I mentioned earlier might be easier to do going uphill. The trail can be hard to find but if you keep an eye down the hill you can see where the trail ends up and use that to guide you. From there you follow the trail and eventually will get to intersections with some other trails, there are multiple ways to link the different trails but we took a right on to the split rock trail back towards lucky boy vista. There are some really cool accessible rock formations to check out through here. Once you get up the stone stairs and pass the rock formations right off the trail is where the little bit of off trail comes in if you follow this track. This was a place where we were glad we had a track to follow because as far as I could tell, there was no established trail up the hill of lucky boy vista. We followed the track we were following and towards the top, a trail becomes a little more defined. Low and behold, once reaching the top, we see the sign about no maintained trail. Once you are at the top of lucky boy vista, the trail begins to become a sandy stream bed that isn’t that awesome to hike in. You will see a lot more Joshua trees here than earlier in the hike. Keep following the river bed and you will pass one sign pointing you ahead over another drainage way. You will see a sign saying the way your going is 1 mile to the west parking. After that at the second straight arrow sign but instead of following it, take a right and follow that trail for a short while, staying left and that will bring you back to the parking lot instead of making you walk down the road a little bit. This is definitely one of those trails that was a lot nicer with a previous track to go off of.

Parking at the Midtown Mall, this trail looks a lot different in early spring than it does in mid-summer. A nice stroll down a paved trail that goes down to Lakeview Park.

This is the full Harmony Creek trail in Oshawa walked two times. Parking at Rossland Square 3/4 of the way up, walked down, into a quiet neighbourhood, then walked back up the full length of the trail and then back to our truck. Fully paved, two lanes, a very easy path to walk for people of every fitness level.

Great and challenging hike. Beautiful views coming down into Terrace Canyon and Pine Creek. Data through notch is a bit wonky