{"id":1666,"date":"2019-04-20T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:20:51","slug":"a-trip-to-a-fairy-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/20\/a-trip-to-a-fairy-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to a Fairy Ring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stopped to pick up a new daypack for M and one of the sales guys sketched out a rough map to the Titanic Cathedral Trees in the Prairie Creek Redwood State Park.  The woods are always calling, so off we went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFairy Rings&#8221; or &#8220;Cathedral Trees&#8221; are sometimes seen in Redwood forests. The death of an old tree often nourishes the growth of new trees. Sometimes the burls at the base and seeds from the dying tree create new trees that form a circle around the old. 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Drury Scenic Parkway is a short easy paved drive thru the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. At the southern end is a visitor center  and a resident herd of elk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped to pick up a new daypack for M and one of the sales guys sketched out a rough map to the Titanic Cathedral Trees in the Prairie Creek Redwood State Park. The woods are always calling, so off we went. \u201cFairy Rings&#8221; or &#8220;Cathedral Trees&#8221; are sometimes seen in Redwood forests. 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