Hello Pack 102 Families, You are invited to go family style tent camping with our Pack. For our second campout of the summer, we have reserved campsites for the weekend of July 13th-16th in the Upper Loop of the Van Damme State Park. Three miles south of Mendocino on Highway 1, Van Damme State Park offers a scenic beach, a lush fern-filled forest, and year-round camping. The highway runs through the park, separating the campground and the Fern Canyon trail head to the east from the beach and parking lot to the west. Visitors can fish for abalone or launch a kayak in a protected cove. They can explore a pygmy forest. They can hike, jog, or bicycle the splendid Fern Canyon Scenic Trail beside Little River. Of all the park system's units along the Mendocino coast, Van Damme is perhaps the richest in terms of historical resources connected with the redwood lumber industry. Van Damme is a great place for hiking, biking, birding, jogging, kayaking, botani...