Senior News July, 2002 Vol. 21. No.  7

 

Published by the Humboldt Senior Resource Center in Eureka, California. HSRC is a non-profit community-based organization offering services for senior citizens, multi-generational families and caregivers.

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July's Theme: Vacationing at home
Local trails entice residents to bountiful nature

Jen Rice of Redwood Community Action Agency's Natural Resource Services invites people to check RCAA's web site for the entire inter-linking trails plan around Eureka which contains maps of all the existing trails. The site is www.rcaa.org/baytrails. Among the trails she recommended are:

- Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the new visitor facility. Trails are being revised, but there are two refuge trails which offer "phenomenal birding year round through multiple habitats," said Asst. Refuge Manager Shannon Smith. Easy access and flat trails. Hours are Monday through Friday 7 a.m.-5 p.m., docent led walks second Sunday every month, 9 a.m. Accessible viewing area at Visitor Center: take Hookton Road exit off Hwy 101, follow frontage road to headquarters. To get to Hookton Slough trail access, continue down Hookton to parking area. Info: Shannon Smith, 733-5406.

- City of Eureka Elk River Wildlife Area. Turn at Hilfiker Lane from Broadway to bay and trailhead. One-mile trail along Elk River Slough.

- Manila Community Beach and Dunes. Bev Prosser, 445-3309.

- Bureau of Land Management public access

- Samoa Dunes, north Jetty, left across bridge, 7 miles south to handicap accessible ramp way which leads to viewing platform. Lots of WWII bunkers and interpretive signs to explain the history of the area. Can walk to beach, but look out for off-highway vehicles.

- Lost Coast Headlands, 7 miles from Ferndale on Centerville Road. Guthrie Creek Trail is a steep 1-mile descent 500 feet to beach on an old dirt road. Beautiful pocket beach. Be cautious about tides and crumbling bluffs.

- Headwaters Forest Reserve and historic logging town of Falk, a 2-mile round trip that takes approximately an hour. Level trail along Elk River continues for an 11-mile round trip, a steeper hike the last 2.5 miles to a view of the old growth trees. Take Elk River Road south of Eureka, 7 miles to end of road trailhead parking area.

- Headwater Forest Reserve, free guided south access hikes from Newburg Park, Fortuna, available by reservation, 8:45 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer. Strenuous hike, 20 percent grade. Call to make reservations, 825-2300.

- For experienced hikers, the BLM has an 80-mile trail system and camping in Southern Humboldt in the King Range National Conservation Area. The Bureau is working to open two additional areas to public access, the South Spit and Mad River Slough and Dunes. Check the web site: www.ca.blm.gov/arcata.