C.E.R.T's topic reminded me that I should ask for input/suggestions on camping/seeing in a stretch of the California coast which I've only visited once, I think, and that was >30 years ago, the stretch from Eureka south to the little town of Gualala. I plan to take this trip last week in June, first week of July.
My overall Plan: A road trip with the official goal of visiting my brother and his family in Gualala on the California coast in extreme-southern Mendocino county. This will be a trip in my Honda Civic -- not my truck-camper...but I'll have my pre-camper-era car-camping gear.
On the first day I'll drive to Redding, CA and spend a night with my Folks, then the next day head west on 299 to the coast. I haven't been on 299 in >30 years. Growing up in Redding my family would occasionally take that winding road to camp at Patrick's Point State Park, north of Eureka, and I spent one college summer working for the USFS in Hayfork.
I plan to spend a night -- or possibly two -- between Redding and Gualala, that night or nights camping in a campground somewhere scenic.
Any suggestions for a scenic -- close-to-ocean-scenic -- campground(s) somewhere south of Eureka?
I guess that would most-likely be somewhere along Highway 1 where it goes down the coast -- quite a ways south of Eureka, since I know that 101 mostly stays away from the edge...but maybe there are roads that take off from 101 (drivable by a Honda Civic Sedan) that get to a campable place on the coast.
And/or, any partial-day/couple-hours really-cool places I should see along this route?
After I leave Gualala, I'm not sure of my route as I generally head home to Bend, taking a couple/3 days to get home.
I may visit a WTW member who lives in Sebastopol...and I'd like to drive by Clear Lake -- a place of childhood-vacation/weekend memories. I caught my first fish there at the age of 5, off the dock of the motel where we always stayed. And I remember one time we were looking out across the lake at dusk and saw headlights coming across the lake towards us. Eventually they reached our shore, near us, and drove up the boat ramp! It was one of those aqua-cars that were around back in the '60s...remember those? Crazy!
Thanks!
(and in exchange, I'll give advice on where to visit/stay in southeast Oregon
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My overall Plan: A road trip with the official goal of visiting my brother and his family in Gualala on the California coast in extreme-southern Mendocino county. This will be a trip in my Honda Civic -- not my truck-camper...but I'll have my pre-camper-era car-camping gear.
On the first day I'll drive to Redding, CA and spend a night with my Folks, then the next day head west on 299 to the coast. I haven't been on 299 in >30 years. Growing up in Redding my family would occasionally take that winding road to camp at Patrick's Point State Park, north of Eureka, and I spent one college summer working for the USFS in Hayfork.
I plan to spend a night -- or possibly two -- between Redding and Gualala, that night or nights camping in a campground somewhere scenic.
Any suggestions for a scenic -- close-to-ocean-scenic -- campground(s) somewhere south of Eureka?
I guess that would most-likely be somewhere along Highway 1 where it goes down the coast -- quite a ways south of Eureka, since I know that 101 mostly stays away from the edge...but maybe there are roads that take off from 101 (drivable by a Honda Civic Sedan) that get to a campable place on the coast.
And/or, any partial-day/couple-hours really-cool places I should see along this route?
After I leave Gualala, I'm not sure of my route as I generally head home to Bend, taking a couple/3 days to get home.
I may visit a WTW member who lives in Sebastopol...and I'd like to drive by Clear Lake -- a place of childhood-vacation/weekend memories. I caught my first fish there at the age of 5, off the dock of the motel where we always stayed. And I remember one time we were looking out across the lake at dusk and saw headlights coming across the lake towards us. Eventually they reached our shore, near us, and drove up the boat ramp! It was one of those aqua-cars that were around back in the '60s...remember those? Crazy!
Thanks!
(and in exchange, I'll give advice on where to visit/stay in southeast Oregon