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Hike the Wild and Wooly Lost Coast Trail
Bureau of Land ManagementArcata, CA 95521 Phone: (707) 986-5400About
See a coastline missed by many on a hiking and camping getaway. California’s Lost Coast , 80 miles of unspoiled shoreline that begins about 50 miles north of Mendocino, is as raw and rugged as it gets. The reason is simple. In the 1920s, when road crews were building State 1 along the coast, the steep mountains here simply forced them to give up. They swung the road over the hills and merge...more