The rebuild cost $1.8 million, derived from visitor fees at Muir Woods, and it took as many as 20 park service trail crew members to construct. “No pack mules were involved.

I completed this less-trotted 3-mile loop that included the Fern Creek, Plevin Cut and Alice Eastwood trails on a recent weekend visit to Muir Woods. “People use it as part of a loop,” Colyer ...