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Gaining elevation again and crossing a few seasonal creeks which may dampen the trail, you can just barely see the buildings of West Point Inn through the trees uphill and left. With Laguna Creek left and downhill, you come to a junction marked by a trail post, where the route forks. The Matt Davis Trail heads left across a bridge over the creek, but your route, the Nora Trail, goes straight and begins a relentless climb via switchbacks to West Point Inn.

Soon the trail turns left, crosses Laguna Creek on a wooden bridge, and then veers right and resumes its uphill course, steep in places, through a forest of spindly redwoods. As you get farther from the creek, the redwoods give way to tanbark oak, toyon, huckleberry, and poison oak. Dark-eyed juncos — small black-headed birds with a pink bill and white along the sides of their tails — may be flitting through the trees in noisy flocks.

A clearing with picnic tables and a water fountain signals your arrival at West Point Inn, a wonderful place to stop, rest, and enjoy the view. Restrooms are on the Inn’s east side; find them by walking through the covered deck area.