Wunderlich Park, a county park in Woodside, California, rests on the side of the hills below Skyline Boulevard. You can hike five miles uphill in a heavily shaded redwood forest from the park entrance on Woodside Road to the edge of Skyline Boulevard.
The park is mostly browns and greens with the occasional bright yellow of a banana slug crawling across a trail. During the winter the fog may condense on the leaves of the redwoods at the top and pour down onto the trails like rain.
Wunderlich sounds quiet compared to the city - with soft breezes, small creeks, and an occasional deer in the woods. The air feels fresh, full of oxygen from the trees, invigorating. In the summer, the park is dry and a little dusty.
If you travel the trails, you will meet hikers and occasional riders on horseback. An ancient redwood, over twelve feet in diameter, rises two-hundred feet into the air on the edge of one trail.
Although the forest grew up on the remains of an old farm, Wunderlich, that was cleared perhaps a century ago, there is a sense of the ancient hills and woods that predate civilization and perhaps mankind.