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Map of the Awaswas area. The Boulder Creek area is in the traditional tribal territory of the Achistaca, an Awaswas-speaking people [10] of the Ohlone cultural unit, who were a group of contiguous bands that inhabited the coastal region of present-day California from the San Francisco Bay to the Monterey Peninsula and down to San José and Salinas Valley.
The creek is crossed by SR 236 for the third time, where it receives Peavine Creek, 640 feet (200 m) in elevation, [8] on the right bank. Peavine Creek is located 1.4 miles from downtown Boulder Creek in the steep terrain of the eastern slope of Ben Lomond Mountain with a 12-foot vertical drop.
Big Creek Falls (Kerckhoff Cascade, The Cascada) Crystal Veil Falls; Dinkey Creek Falls – 400 ft (120 m) + Garlic Falls – 820 ft (250 m) Grizzly Falls – 150 ft (46 m) Minnow Creek Falls – 250 ft (76 m) Mist Falls – 50 ft (15 m) Purple Lake Falls – 300 ft (91 m) + Redwood Creek Falls – 300 ft (91 m) + Roaring River Falls – 40 ft ...
Whiskeytown was one of Shasta County's first gold mining settlements during the California Gold Rush of 1849, though at the time it was called Whiskey Creek Diggings. There are two stories for how the settlement might have gotten its name: The first states that a barrel of whiskey fell from a pack mule and into the creek that ran by Whiskeytown; the second attributes the name to the legend ...
Whiskeytown Falls is a three-tiered waterfall with a total elevation of 220 feet (67 m), located in northern California's Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Despite its size, it was largely unknown until 2005, having been improperly mapped decades before.
Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam. [ 6 ] Clear Creek originates in the Trinity Mountains , between Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest , and flows into Whiskeytown Lake reservoir, impounded by Whiskeytown Dam .
The Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area (WST-NRA) has a total of 246,087 acres (99,588 ha) of land, which is divided into the Shasta, Trinity, and Whiskeytown Units. The Shasta–Trinity National Forest surrounds the Shasta and Trinity units, so they are managed by the United States Forest Service. [2]
Clear Creek. South Fork Clear Creek; Whiskeytown Dam, Whiskeytown Lake; Crystal Creek; East Fork Clear Creek; Rock Creek; Keswick Dam, Keswick Reservoir; Spring Creek. Spring Creek; Slickrock Creek; Boulder Creek; Flat Creek; Shasta Dam, Shasta Lake; Backbone Creek; Pit River (jump to tributaries) Salt Creek; Castle Creek; Soda Creek; North ...