town’s biggest tourist attractions. It’s now an exclusive private members’ club, but visitors can pose by the wrought-iron gates and also photograph its pretty sister property, the Lady.
Humboldt Bay Tourism Center offers
a taste of the area, with local beers, wines, cheese and the freshest oysters served in its lively bar. Lost Coast Brewery is another popular spot for craft brews soaked up with burgers and roast beef sandwiches soaked in rich gravy.
North of Eureka, recommend a horseback ride through the Redwood National Park. Based near the tiny town of Orick, Redwood Creek Buckarettes take groups up winding mountain paths deep into the forest, £55 for one and a half hours. This is the home of the tallest trees on earth – the record belongs to a redwood (sequoia) towering 379.3ft above ground and thought to be about 800 years old. Before looping back, riders can walk their horses inside the
concave trunk of a coastal redwood for a unique photo opportunity. For clients interested in a longer
road trip, suggest continuing north through the redwood forests, stopping in Crescent City by the Oregon border. Named after the curve of sandy beach south of the city, it has a population of fewer than 8,000. Klamath River Jet Boat Tours runs
regular jaunts with expert guides pointing out black bears, ospreys and eagles along the riverbank, £35 for two hours.
◗ LAKES AND LAVA TUBES The drive from Eureka to Redding along highway 299 takes around four hours, and is worth the flight in itself. Empty roads wend through the forest like unfurled ribbons. Suggest the Red Lion Hotel in
Redding (rooms from £65) as a base for exploring Lake Shasta, a reservoir that spreads like gnarled fingers over an area of 75 miles. Recommend a visit to Whiskeytown Lake, where the water
is as crisp and clear as triple-distilled vodka and ringed by soft sand. Other spots worth visiting include 129ft Burney Falls and Lassen Volcanic National Park. The latter has a unique biodiversity with pine forest, volcanoes, hissing mud pots and mountain peaks, often still capped in snow come spring. The Red Lion Hotel has access to
free bikes. Suggest riding across the city’s futuristic Sundial Bridge and following nine miles of paths along the Sacramento River. View 202 is a destination spot for lunch or dinner, with a huge terrace overlooking the river and a menu including grilled watermelon salad and lemonade infused with lavender and coconut. North of Lassen, Lava Beds National Monument is one of America’s oddest and most beguiling national parks. This volcanic wilderness, dotted with tufts of fragrant shrubs, has a network of ‘lava tubes’ – formed naturally from volcanic flow – to explore.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Downtown
Eureka; Shasta Cascade; Lassen
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