North Coast California Resources and Links ~ Ferndale, Eureka, Arcata and Humboldt County

• Victorian Ferndale is entirely on the National Historic Register and is immortalized in Lego at "Legoland."
  • History of Ferndale.
  • Ferndale Event Calendar.
• The City of Ferndale website has contact information for city departments and back-issues of council and meeting notes and minutes.
• The new City of Ferndale website
• Ferndale was on the National Historic Trust's list of distinctive destinations for 2002.
• Ferndale's Historical Museum gives hours, times and contact information as well as photo galleries and on-line gift shop.
• Majestic movie notes, and a great day-by-day journal about Ferndale!
• Letterboxes in Ferndale

• Arts in Ferndale
  • Visit Hobart Galleries, the oldest gallery in Humboldt County.
  • Visit Chuck Bowden's Art and Life Gallerie online
  • Ferndale had the first ever Kinetic Sculpture Race down Main Street in 1969. It has grown to the three day, 42-mile Arcata to Ferndale Kinetic Grand Championship art race of human powered vehicles and will celebrate its fortieth running in 2008 because one year there were two championship races!
  • The Ferndale Repertory Theatre is in its third decade of live theatre in town.
  
  
• Architecture in Ferndale
  • Check out the Gingerbread Mansion, "the most photographed inn in California."
  • Shaw House Inn and gardens.
  • A spirited "about Ferndale" by a local jeweler.
  
  
• Maps of Ferndale
  Map of Ferndale, CA 95536
  
  • Topographic map of Ferndale, the Salt River and the mouth of the Eel River Courtesy TerraServer
  • Airphoto of Ferndale and environs as above and at the same scale. Courtesy TerraServer

• State Historical Landmarks of Humboldt County.
• Blue Ox Mill Historic Millworks, has a park and school of traditional woodworking.
• Samoa Cookhouse, the "last surviving logging cookhouse in the west.
• Humboldt County Historical Society. Don't miss the "then and now" views of Eureka.
• Typescripts of articles from old newspaper stories from Eureka and Humboldt County California. They're very interesting and each one is dated, but there are a whole bunch of files in no apparent order. If you can figure out how it's indexed or organized, please email me.
• Historic Sites along the California Coastal Trail

There's too much geology in Humboldt for this tiny space!

Click here for Humboldt County Geology
includes a layer by layer description of the local rocks, history of the area, earthquakes, faults, fossil localities, references and links. Constantly updated.

Eyewitness accounts of the 1906 quake and damages from The Ferndale Enterprise.
Field trip to the Salt River, March 2004.

• The Humboldt Bay Harbor Commission provides nearly 200 pages of local links, maps and data on the area.
• Environmental data from Humguide has a variety of scorecards and information about local pollution issues.
• Friends of the Eel River which runs next to Ferndale. You see bridges over the Eel in the movie "Outbreak."
• Lost Coast Hiking.
• Trinity River rafting has links to other outdoor activities in the Klamath/Trinity region
• Outdoor Organizations on HumGuide.
• Animal Tracks of Humboldt County lets you point and click to see the tracks left by all the local fauna - including Pacific Tree Frogs ("ribbet!").
• Celebrate Godwit Days every April in Arcata.

• The Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation
• the Northcoast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society has their calendar for flower walks, a way to look up all the local native plants and a list of invasive weeds among much, much more.
• Las Pilitas Nursery has pages about all phases of western wildlife and gardening for wildlife.
• Shaw House Gardens in Ferndale
• Food not Lawns, Community Agriculture Network in Arcata
• Northern California Daffodil Society
• Sun Valley Floral Farms in Arcata.
• Humus, compost and mulch from HumGardens.

• Redwoods National Park.
• California's State website provides links to
  • Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a 14,000 acre sanctuary of old growth coast redwood
  • Humboldt Redwoods State Park is the largest redwood state park at more than 51,000 acres.
  • Sinkyone Wilderness State Park is 7,367 acres on the Lost Coast.
  • Unfortunately, the state keeps changing the link addresses for the parks up here, so search the following park names for information: Humboldt Lagoons State Park, Patrick's Point State Park, Trinidad State Beach, Little River State Beach, Azalea State Reserve, Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, Richardson Grove State Park, Benbow Lake State Recreation Area, Fort Humboldt State Historic Park, and the John B. Dewitt State Reserve

• Humboldt Arts Organization of local artists is based in the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka.
• The Ink People provides workspace and exhibits for member artists in Eureka.
• Redwood Art Association, Humboldt County's oldest art organization, promotes art and artists.
• Murals of Humboldt County
• Humboldt Area Foundation "To serve as an independent staging ground for residents, individually and in concert, to build social, economic and environmental prosperity to California's North Coast," the foundation has given away $22 million of $50 million raised over the years.

• Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre
• InterAct has a calendar of all northcoast theatre presentations and links to all the local playhouse webpages.
  • Ferndale Repertory Theatre
  • Humboldt Light Opera
  • Northcoast Repertory Theatre
  • Redwood Curtain

• Eureka Times-Standard on-line daily paper.
• Eureka Reporter
• Arcata Eye Newspaper has the world's best police log.
• TriCity Weekly Ad Paper.
• KIEM-TV, the local NBC has links to local/national news and more. None of the other television affiliates produce nightly local news shows.
• KHUM-FM "radio without the rules" and their sister-station KSLUG-FM, the local alt-outlet.
• Scanner Frequencies.
• Where to point your antenna for best reception of local translator towers is shown on a detailed local map created after you enter your address.
• Fortuna live cam when working.

• Humboldt Redwoods Marathon every October.
• Avenue of the Giants Marathon every May.
• Six Rivers Running Club sponsors many local running events including the Foggy Bottom Milk Run in Ferndale.
• Tour of the Unknown Coast "California's toughest century" (100-mile bike race) begins and ends in the Victorian Village of Ferndale every May.
• The Grand Championship Arcata to Ferndale Cross-Country Kinetic Sculpture Race every Memorial Day weekend.

• Weekly calendar of events from the North Coast Journal updates every Thursday at noon.
• Humboldt County Government website.
• Check out the growth sketch maps & more at this page from the county.
• Humboldt Visitors Bureau.
• "HumGuide" to Humboldt County.
• Humboldt Dining Review for all the towns.
• Humboldt County demographics.
• HumGen provides geneology links for Humboldt County.
• Many movies have been filmed in Humboldt County, and the film board would like to see more.
• Films made in Humboldt County
• Eureka/Arcata (ARC) Airport and county information from the airport shuttle company.
• Humboldt County Fair organization. The fair is around the 7th to the 17th of August each year.
• Humboldt County Office of Education
• College of the Redwoods
• Humboldt State University
• Fortuna Civil War Days each September.
• Fortuna's History Museum is in its old railroad depot.
• Arcata Chamber of Commerce.
• Arcata's City Government.