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The Lost Coast is a mostly natural and undeveloped area of the California North Coast in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, which includes the King Range. It was named the "Lost Coast" after the area experienced depopulation in the 1930s. [ 1 ]
State Route 211 (SR 211) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that connects Ferndale with U.S. 101 in Humboldt County.The highway was originally designed to be the northernmost segment of State Route 1, but after construction of the Coast Highway through the Lost Coast region was abandoned, the route to Ferndale was renumbered to SR 211.
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.. 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 ...
Mattole Road is a 61.4-mile-long (98.8 km) county road in Humboldt County, California. [2] It originates at Ferndale, passes through Capetown and crosses the Bear River, then reaches the Pacific coastline at Cape Mendocino and follows the beach for seven miles (11 km), [3] passes through Petrolia and Honeydew, crosses Panther Gap at 2,744 feet (836 m) elevation, [4] and terminates near U.S ...
Humboldt County (/ ˈ h ʌ m b oʊ l t / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,463. [7] The county seat is Eureka. [8] Humboldt County comprises the Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna, California, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
This section of California's coastline is known as the Lost Coast, a landscape too rugged for highway building, which forced the construction of State Highway 1 and U.S. 101 inland. [2] The King Range Wilderness is the longest undeveloped coast, outside of Alaska, in the United States. [3]
The Cape Mendocino Coast. Cape Mendocino (Spanish: Cabo Mendocino, meaning "Cape of Mendoza"), [1] which is located approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of San Francisco, is located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, United States. At 124° 24' 34" W longitude, it is the westernmost point on the coast of California ...
Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States.Its population was 1,481 (2021 census), [8] up from 1,371 at the 2010 census.The city contains dozens of well-preserved Victorian storefronts and homes.