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Sinkyone Wilderness State Park is a state park in Mendocino County, California. The wilderness area borders the Pacific Ocean to the west and the King Range National Conservation Area to the north. The nearest settlement is the unincorporated town of Leggett .
The 3-mile (4.8 km) long Black Sands beach, although not within the wilderness, it is an access point to the Lost Coast Trail. The Lost Coast National Recreation Trail is almost 25 miles (40 km) in length and is mostly level beachwalking. The trail is described by the nonprofit group, American Trails, as a " serious backpacking trek."
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 ...
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The steepness of uplift has created a coastal ridge forming a drainage divide parallel to the coast. The drainage pattern between Usal Creek and the Mattole River is a series of short streams with steep channel gradients. [4] Like the surrounding coast, the Lost Coast experiences a wet season and a dry season. The wet season ranges from October ...
Shelter Cove is a census-designated place [3] in Humboldt County, California. [2] It lies at an elevation of 138 feet (42 m). [2] Shelter Cove is on California's Lost Coast where the King Range meets the Pacific Ocean.
Petrolia has an estimated population of 300–500 people within a 15-mile radius. [citation needed] It is located in the Mattole Valley, part of the Lost Coast region, one of the largest wilderness areas and the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the continental United States. [5]
Usal Creek, 9.7 miles (15.6 km) long, [3] drains about 28 square miles (73 km 2) on the Mendocino Coast and empties into the Pacific Ocean near the former company town of Usal. Usal Creek drains a valley between two ridges of the California Coast Ranges. The longer North Fork drains southeasterly from springs once providing a water supply for ...