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Sequoia County, California
Sequoia County was a proposal in the early 1990s, to create a new county out of parts of Southern Humboldt County, California, Humboldt and Northern Mendocino County, Mendocino counties in California. The 1992 proposal halted signature gathering due to low support. The proponents of the proposal, restarted in 1993, submitted signatures in January 1994 to the Humboldt County clerk, who validated 2,033 signatures, 169 short of the necessary number to qualify for possible inclusion on the 1996 ballot. History The new county was first proposed in 1992, by Alderpoint resident Lee Ann Barton from her class project at the College of the Redwoods extension in Redway, California, Redway, then under the name Salmon County. The proponents wanted "better representation and services," including law enforcement, and said they wanted their taxes to stay local. The petition to Sequoia County, in the heart of a region best known for the cultivation of marijuana and the namesake redwoods, that woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humboldt County, California
Humboldt County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,463. The county seat is Eureka. Humboldt County comprises the Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna, California Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located on the far North Coast, about north of San Francisco. It has among the most diverse climates of United States counties, with very mild coastal summers and hot interior days. Similar to the greater region, summers are extremely dry and winters have substantial rainfall. Its primary population centers of Eureka, the site of College of the Redwoods main campus, and the smaller college town of Arcata, site of California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, are located adjacent to Humboldt Bay, California's second largest natural bay. Area cities and towns are known for hundreds of ornate examples of Victorian architecture. Humboldt County is a densely forested mountainous and rural county with about of coastline (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear River (Humboldt County)
Bear River is the largest Pacific coastal drainage basin between the Mattole River and the Eel River. Bear River drains the ranch pastures and forests of California Coast Ranges south of the Bear River Ridge extending easterly from False Cape along the False Cape shear zone of the Russ Fault. The river channel through undivided Cretaceous marine formations exposes younger Neogene, namely middle or lower Pliocene, marine sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks near the mouth, but lacks the well defined offshore submarine canyons of the Eel River to the north and the Mattole River to the south. Bear River reaches the Pacific after flowing westerly approximately from elevations above along the ridge above the Bull Creek drainage of Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Bear River provides the recreational and industrial water supply for the community of Capetown, California, and wildlife habitat including cold freshwater habitat for fish migration and spawning. Bear River was named from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandelier Tree
The Chandelier Tree in Drive-Thru Tree Park is a tall coast redwood tree in Leggett, California with a by hole cut through its base to allow a car to drive through. Its base measures diameter at breast height (chest-high). A historic sign put up in or before the 1930s claims a height of 315 feet high and 21 feet wide (which may have been true for both at the time it was hung), but a contemporary measurement by a Certified Arborist experienced with tall redwoods and using a laser rangefinder found the tree to be 276 feet high and 16 feet in diameter. It is unknown if the tree was topped by Nature in between the measurements. The name "Chandelier Tree" comes from its unusual limbs that resemble a chandelier. The limbs, which measure from in diameter, begin above the ground.It is 2,400 years old. A vintage postcard of the Chandelier Tree was shown during the opening credits of ''National Lampoon's Vacation''. History The Chandelier Tree stands on privately owned proper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confusion Hill
Confusion Hill is a roadside attraction in Piercy, California. The attraction, which opened in 1949, includes what is dubbed as a "gravity house", a structure built to give the interior visitors tilt-induced optical illusions, similar to the perspective on a gravity hill. Occupants experience the need to stand upright when they actually already are. Also included in the attraction is the Mountain Train Ride a narrow gauge built in a switchback layout along the side of a steep hill. For 60 years, Confusion Hill was on the heavily traveled US 101 highway, also known as the Redwood Highway. Due to repeated mudslides obstructing the road, US 101 was realigned in 2009 to the Confusion Hill Bridges, bypassing the attraction. In 2010 Confusion Hill was granted California Points of Historical Interest status. ''Gravity Falls'' In August 2016, Alex Hirsch, creator of the television series ''Gravity Falls'', installed a statue of series villain Bill Cipher at Confusion Hill afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Range National Conservation Area
The King Range is a mountain range of the Outer Northern California Coast Ranges System, located entirely within Humboldt County on the North Coast of California. Geography Much of the mountain range's area is protected within the King Range National Conservation Area, a National Conservation Area unit of the National Landscape Conservation System, and in the King Range Wilderness Area, both managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). As part of the Northern Coast Ranges, the King Range runs parallel to the coast, and its western slopes fall steeply to the Pacific Ocean. The King Range is adjacent to the Mendocino Triple Junction, where three tectonic plates — the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate, and the Juan de Fuca Plate — meet. The area experiences frequent earthquakes. Most mountains and ridges in the range are low to moderate in elevation. King Peak, at , is the highest mountain in the range. Snow falls above 3,281 feet (1,000 m) a couple of times per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue Of The Giants
The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in northern California, United States, running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is named after the coastal redwoods that tower over the route. The road is a former alignment of U.S. Route 101, and continues to be maintained as a state highway as State Route 254 (SR 254). Route description The Avenue's southern terminus is at US 101 near Phillipsville, north of Garberville. Its northern terminus is at US 101 near Stafford, south of Fortuna. The Avenue is notable for the coast redwoods that overshadow the road and surround the area. It is from these towering trees that the Avenue of the Giants takes its name. The road winds alongside the scenic Eel River, and connects several small towns such as Phillipsville, Miranda, Myers Flat, Burlington, Weott, Englewood, Redcrest and Pepperwood. The two-lane road has a number of parking areas, picnic sites, and attractions for visitors. The nearby river provides many swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwoods. It is located south of Eureka, California, near Weott, California, Weott in southern Humboldt County, California, Humboldt County, within Northern California, named after the great nineteenth-century scientist, Alexander von Humboldt. The park was established by the Save the Redwoods League in 1921 largely from lands purchased from the Pacific Lumber Company. Beginning with the dedication of the Raynal Bolling Memorial Grove, it has grown to become the third-largest park in the California State Park system, now containing through acquisitions and gifts to the state. It is part of the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion and has of old-growth forests. are old-growth redwoods, comprising the entire Bull Creek (Humboldt County), Bull Creek Drainage basin, watershed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benbow Inn
The Benbow Inn, in Garberville, California, is a hotel built in 1926. It was an early hotel on the Redwood Highway and was originally called the Hotel Benbow. The Benbow Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was built of Douglas fir in the Tudor Revival style. With It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the program accepts nominations and identifies hotels that have maintained their authenticity, sense of pla .... History The Benbow Historic Inn was designed by architect Albert Farr, who was famous for designing The Wolf House for novelist Jack London. The Benbow family built the hotel, the Benbow Dam, Power Company, as well as the nearby RV Park and Golf Course as part of their resort community along the Redwood Highway. The Benbow Inn was host to Hollywood's elite and other high standing pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae On The River
Reggae on the River was an annual reggae festival active from 1983 until 2019 in Humboldt County, California. It was frequently held on the last weekend in July or on the first weekend in August. History Reggae on the River began in 1984 as a benefit for the Mateel Community Center, a nonprofit for southern Humboldt County, after an arsonist burnt down the community hall in Garberville. The board members at the time were Nancy Shelby and Carol Bruno who worked with Jack Arthur in organizing the festival to raise money for a new hall. It was held at French's Camp (a property located on a bend in the Eel River owned by the Arthur family near Piercy, California) every year until 2006 when financial issues forced the festival to be relocated for the next two years. In 2003, the annual festival celebrated its 20th year. A DVD featuring performances from the anniversary was released. It includes performances by Culture, Toots & the Maytals, Third World, Beres Hammond, Israel Vibrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity County, California
Trinity County is a List of counties in California, county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California. Trinity County is rugged, mountainous, heavily forested, and lies along the Trinity River (California), Trinity River (for which it is named) within the Salmon Mountains, Salmon and Klamath Mountains. It is also one of three counties in California with no incorporated cities (the other two counties in California with that distinction are Alpine County, California, Alpine and Mariposa County, California, Mariposa counties). As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 16,112, making it the fifth least-populous county in California, and the least-populous of California's 27 original counties. The county seat and largest community is Weaverville, California, Weaverville. History Trinity County has a rich history of Native Americans: Tsnungwe including the South Fork Hupa and tł'oh-mitah-xwe, Chimariko, and Wintu. The county takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iaqua, California
Iaqua (also, Jaqua) is a former settlement in Humboldt County, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori .... It was located south of Kneeland. Camp or Fort Iaqua, a military post operational from August 5, 1863, to 1866 was located on Yeager Creek about 18 miles east of the mouth of the Eel River,Colonel Herbert M. Hart, USMC (retired)Historic California Posts: Fort Iaqua (Camp Jaqua, Camp Iaqua) Pioneer Forts of the Far West, The California State Military Museum, 1965 is located on Iaqua Creek south-southeast of Iaqua. The Jaqua post office opened in 1880, and changed its name to Iaqua later that year. The post office closed in 1903, re-opened in 1909, and closed for good in 1920. As of 1873, a school was in operation at Iaqua. It later merged with the Kneelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad River (California)
The Mad River (Wiyot: ''Baduwa't'') is a river in upper Northern California. It flows for in a roughly northwest direction through Trinity County and then Humboldt County, draining a watershed into the Pacific Ocean north of the town of Arcata near alifornia Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airportin McKinleyville. The river's headwaters are in the Coast Range near South Kelsey Ridge. History Before Euro-American settlers arrived in the mid-1800s, the native peoples occupying the lower Mad River watershed were the Wiyot (from approximately Blue Lake to its mouth, plus the greater Humboldt Bay region) who spoke a dialect affiliated with the Algonquian language family, with upriver reaches controlled by three different groups whose languages are related to the Athabascan family, the Whilkut, Nongatl and Lassik (Baumhoff 1958). Today, among these distinct groups, only the Wiyot-affiliated Blue Lake Rancheria and the Wiyot Tribe of the Table Bluff Reservation are federally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
