Lost Coast
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 26 ′ N , 124 ° 25 ′ W | ||
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| Country | United States | ||
| California | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | US CA | ||
| Post Code | 95501 | ||
| Telephone code | (+1) 707 | ||
 Lost Coast at Shelter Cove
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Lost Coast (in German: lost coast ) is a largely natural and development-free area in Humboldt County and Mendocino County on the north coast of California . The area was named "Lost Coast" after depopulation in the 1930s and is the least populated and most difficult to reach part of the California coast.
The region stretches on the Pacific coast roughly from Rockport to Ferndale . Much of the area is owned by the American federal government and consists of two parts:
- The Sinkyone Wilderness State Park covers the southern part of the Lost Coast. It is named after the Sinkyone (Sinkine) Indian tribe who used to live here. The park's history begins in 1975 when the state bought real estate on the Lost Coast.
- The King Range National Conservation Area was established in 1970 on a size of 240 square kilometers and comprises the northern part of the Lost Coast. It is located in Humboldt County, only a small piece of land on the coast belongs to Mendocino County. It was named after the King Range , the 1,247 meter high King Peak is its highest peak.
geology
Lost Coast undoubtedly consists of marine metasediment from the Cretaceous period and sedimentary rock from the North American plate, which emerged steeply from the rugged drifting of the Mendocino Triple Junction when it rubbed against the Pacific plate and the Gorda plate . The area includes tertiary marine sediment formations north of the Mattole River and part of the Franciscan Assemblage called Point Delgada at Shelter Cove . The ruggedness of the upwelling created a ridge on the coast that forms a watershed parallel to the coast. The resulting drainage pattern between Usal Creek and the Mattole River is a series of a brief inflow of a steep canal gradient. The area is known both for the black sand on the beaches, which got their own color from dark-colored sandstones, the greywacke , and from an older compressed shale that was formed by tectonic activity.
Traffic and places
Highways
The Lost Coast geology made it very difficult to build paths through the area.
State Route 1 , California's Highway on the Pacific coast, coming from the south , was originally intended to run through the Lost Coast. In 1984 this plan was abandoned. The coming of the south road bends now north of Rockport inland and leads to Leggett on US Highway 101 .
At the northern end of the Lost Coast, a short completed stretch of the Fernbridge was known as State Route 1 as early as 1934 . After planning to extend it, it was renumbered State Route 211 .
Local streets and places
In the area of the Lost Coast there are or were, described from south to north, the following connections and locations:
- in the very south on the coast north of Rockport begins the Usal Road , a small mountain road to the mouth of Usal Creek in the Pacific and further inland. At the mouth of Usal Creek , the Usal Redwood Company built a sawmill, railroad, and 500-meter long wharf in 1889. A fire in 1902 destroyed sawmills, schoolhouses, depots and bridges in the Usal Creek land. The railroad was dismantled; but a few structures like a hotel survived until they were destroyed by another fire in 1969. A side road through the coastal mountains leads to the mouth of Jackass Creek in the Pacific. The Wheeler lumberjack settlement was located there from 1948 to 1959 , of which no traces can be seen today.
- the coastal town of Bear Harbor was from 1893 to 1921 the starting point of a railway line of the Bear Harbor and Eel River Railroad , which led over the ridge to Indian Creek and parallel to it further inland. The location of the railway workshops was called Moody , named after the owner of a nearby hotel and saloon, but it is no longer listed on today's maps. Kenny was a small community around springs at a headwaters at the northern fork of Usal Creek , where early settlers from Europe as bark collectors harvested the bark of the Lithocarpus densiflorus in order to be able to process skin dyes into leather; there have been no buildings there since the 1980s or more identifying features. A road was never built over the ridge.
- In the center of the Lost Coast 45 kilometers takes Briceland Road , which in Redway starts there the Southfolk Eel River crossing and Briceland , Thorn Junction , Whitethorn (UIC, 817 residents with a primary school) and the Trappistinnenabtei Redwoods leads to the Pacific and finally, finally a path rather than a road, ending at Bear Harbor mentioned above .
- In Thorn Junction the Shelter Cove Road branches off, which leads in the direction of the Pacific to Shelter Cove , a CDP with 693 inhabitants and the only existing settlement directly on the Lost Coast . From 1892 to 1933 the place had a post office. The Columbia liner sank off Shelter Cove in 1907 . The Shelter Cove Airport in Shelter Cove is a small public airport with a runway to located him around a golf course.
- the Mattole Road leads from Dyerville (no longer inhabited since the flood of 1955) over Bull Creek (no longer inhabited since the flood of 1964) and Honeydew (UIC, with a primary school) to Petrolia and on to the coast, from there via Capetown to Ferndale . From there, California State Route 211 continues north over the Fernbridge .
Web links
- National Geographic - Adventure Guide to the Lost Coast, California (English)
- GearJunkie - Video of the Lost Coast trek (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin G. Gudde, William Bright: California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names , 4th. Edition, University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-520-24217-3 .
- ↑ a b King Range National Conservation Area . Bureau of Land Management . Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- ↑ Sinkyone Wilderness State Park Preliminary Impact Plan and Draft EIR (PDF; 3.5 MB), California Department of Parks and Recreation, June 2006.
- ^ Rudolph G. Strand: Geologic Map of California: Redding Sheet. (1962) State of California Resources Agency
- ^ Charles W. Jennings, Rudolph G. Strand: Geologic Map of California: Ukiah Sheet. (1960) State of California Resources Agency
- ↑ Lost Coast Black Sands information sign at Black Sands beach head parking lot, northern-most set of two information panels near Shelter Cove, California, published by the Bureau of Land Management - Kings Range National Conservation Area, seen September 3, 2012
- ↑ a b Lynwood Carranco: Redwood Lumber Industry . Golden West Books, 1982, ISBN 0-87095-084-3 , pp. 208-209.
