Category: Water Activities
Redwoods
DEL NORTE COUNTY REDWOODS
HUMBOLDT COUNTY REDWOODS
- Redwood National Park
- Humboldt Redwoods State Park
- Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
- Arcata Community Forest
MENDOCINO COUNTY REDWOODS
MISC REDWOODS
Salmon River
- Salmon/Scott River Ranger District – Klamath National Forest
- Ukonom Ranger District – Six Rivers National Forest
- Marble Mountain Wildnerness
- Russian Wilderness
- Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Otter Bar Kayak School
- Whitewater Rafting
- Salmon River Saloon and Gas Station in Cecilville
- Salmon River Disc Golf Club and Course
- Salmon River Outpost Store in Somes Bar on Highway 96
CAMPING
Camping – Main Stem Salmon River
Camping – North Fork Salmon River
Camping – South Fork Salmon River
Trinity Alps High Route
Coastal Trail
- California Coastal Trail
- Hiking the Coastal Trail book by Rob Lorentzen and Richard Nichols
- Coastal Trail in Del Norte County
- Last Chance Section = 13 miles
- DeMartin Section = 12.6 miles
- Hidden Beach Section = 7.8 miles
- Coastal Trail in Humboldt County
- Gold Bluffs Beach Section
- Skunk Cabbage Section = 7.6 miles
- Redwood Creek Section
- Stone Lagoon Section
- Big Lagoon Section
- Patrick’s Point Section
- Stagecoach Road Section
- Little River and Clam Beach Section
- Hammond Trail
- Mad River Beach
- Lanphere Dunes
- Manila Dunes
- Samoa Dunes
- Bay Route
- Table Bluff Section
- Centerville Beach
- Mattole Road
- Lost Coast Trail
- Coastal Trail in Mendocino County
- Sinkyone Trail
Bigfoot Trail
- Bigfoot Trail Alliance
- 360 miles through 32 conifer species in the Klamath Mountains
- 8 sections of the Trail:
- List of conifers species on Bigfoot Trail
Lost Coast Headlands
Lost Coast Headlands consists of two moderate trails to secluded, rugged beaches, at the end of the road to Centerville Beach in Ferndale. The first is Fleener Creek Trail, 0.5 miles downhill to the beach. Guthrie Creek Trail is 1.0 miles downhill to the beach. Both can be difficult and possibly unsafe in muddy conditions, especially Guthrie Creek Trail that has a steep muddy patch right before the beach that some people were turning back from. Fleener Creek Trail has a large driftwood pile that must be carefully crossed, or short wood stairs leading to a creek crossing, after a steep muddy descent to the beach that a sign at the trailhead warns about. If you have bad knees or ankles, you might not want to try these trails in winter, and walking poles are recommended.
- Redwoods.info
- California Coastal Monument – BLM
- YourCaliforniaCoast.org
- 360 degree panoramas of Lost Coast Headlands
- Lost Coast Interpretive Association
- Lost Coast Trails Blog
- Guthrie Creek Trail rockslide video
- Lost Coast Headlands added to California Coastal Monument
FLEENER CREEK TRAIL – PHOTOS
GUTHRIE CREEK TRAIL – PHOTOS
Boundary National Recreation Trail – Red Buttes Wilderness
Marble Rim
English Peak – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Recommended Route: North Fork Trail from Mulebridge Campground, up the North Fork of the Salmon River.
- Trail is recommended for mid to late summer due to high flows at creek crossings.
- The Garden Gulch and Little North Fork Trails are not recommended.
- Season: June – October
- Moderate to Difficult Trail
- Camping: Idlewild or Mulebridge Campgrounds on North Fork Salmon River
From the Mulebridge Trailhead going up the North Fork Salmon River:
- 13 miles to Hancock Lake
- @ ? miles in, Right Hand Fork trail
- @ 8.5 miles in, Lake of the Island Trail
- 2 miles each way to Lake of the Island, river crossing, 4,200 feet elevation
- Lake of The Island: 13 acres, 25 feet deep, 5,600 feet elevation, brook and rainbow trout
- @ 10.5 miles, Abbott Lake Trail, 2 river crossings past Lake of the Island Trail
- 1 mile each way climb to lake, river crossing, 4,800 feet elevation
- Abbott Lake: 8 acres, 20 feet deep, 5,700 feet elevation, brook trout
- @ 10.5 miles Big Meadows/Big Gulch Trail to Wild Lake, Lake Ethel, Lake Katherine, Horse Range Lake, Wooley Creek
- 4 miles each way to Wild Lake
- Wild Lake:
- @ ? miles, English Lake and Upper English Lake
- @ miles in, Diamond Lake, Hancock Lake and Little Hancock Lake
- @ miles in, English Peak Lookout
- @ miles in, Tom Taylor Cabin
- @ miles in, turn to Pine Lake
- @ ? miles in, Hamilton Camp
- @ miles in, turn off to Clear Lake
To reach Wild Lake directly is 14.5 miles from the Mulebridge Trailhead, not including side visits to Lake Ethel and Lake Katherine:
- @5.5 miles – Right Hand Fork Trail
- @8.5 miles – Lake of the Island Trail (+3 miles)
- @10 miles – Abbott Cabin
- @10.5 miles – Big Meadows/Big Gulch Trail above Abbott’s Ranch (+2 steep miles)
- @ 14.5 miles – Wild Lake (+4 steep miles)
- @ 13.5 miles – Horse Range Lake (+3 steep miles from Abbott Cabin)
- Exiting Wooley Creek Trail #5832 = 19 miles from junction with Big Meadows Trail from Wild Lake, to the Wooley Creek Trailhead
- Exiting Marble Rim
- Big Elk Lake is 7.3 miles from Lover’s Camp Trailhead
- Exiting Garden Gulch or Little North Fork Trail – not recommended