Darlingtonia is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Del Norte County Del Norte County (Spanish for "Of The North") is a county located at the far northwest corner of the U.S. state of California, along the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Oregon border. Its population was 27,743 as of the 2020 census, down from 28 ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. It is located on the south bank of the Middle Fork of the Smith River east-southeast of Gasquet, at an elevation of 463 feet (141 m). It is named after the

Darlingtonia californica ''Darlingtonia californica'' —also called the California pitcher plant, the Oregon pitcher plant, cobra lily or cobra plant—is a species of carnivorous plant in the new world pitcher plant family, Sarraceniaceae. It is the sole species wit ...

, common in the region. Darlingtonia was a vacation site with a motel, which was gone by 1970; the site is now a private residence.

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* Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Del Norte County, California {{DelNorteCountyCA-geo-stub