There are 25 picnic sites along the Navarro river banks, two campgrounds between the two redwood groves totaling 92 campsites, and four cabins.

[3][4][5][7] Visitors to the park campgrounds can also go wine tasting in the many nearby wineries of the Anderson Valley AVA.

However, his nephew Samuel Hendy eventually ran out of money and sold the property to the Pacific Coast Lumber Company.

In 1938, Al Strowbridge visited the Anderson Valley Unity Club (a local women's service organization) and spoke to them about the redwood forests of California; from that time forward the Unity Club worked to save the remaining groves of redwoods, and in 1958 the California State Park system bought approximately 600 acres of land with two miles of river frontage from Masonite for US$350,000.

Additionally, the Unity Club continued to help maintain the park, building a disabled-accessible trail through the redwoods in 1980–1981 as part of the International Year of Disabled Persons.

[9][10] Despite accommodating nearly 50,000 visitors per year (primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area) and bringing in an estimated revenue of US$2.8 million per year to Mendocino County, Hendy Woods was one of 70 state parks slated for closure in July 2012 due to state budget cuts.

[2][6][11][12][13] With an annual operating budget of $468,000, and fees totalling $239,000 per year, the state would have saved approximately $229,000 per year by the closure,[14] but this calculation did not include the tax revenues from the economic activities surrounding the park, which have been estimated to be significantly higher than the cost of running the park.