California’s Lost Coast
Northern California is home to “one of the country’s best natural secrets,” said Adam Baer in Men’s Journal. “The Lost Coast”—so known because it’s the “only significant stretch” of California without a shoreline highway—strings together rocky shoals, coastal redwoods, and black-sand beaches directly beneath towering verdant mountains. To explore the area, we drove south from Eureka, Calif., on “meandering” roads that took us through small towns and past the “adventure surfer’s paradise” Shelter Cove until we reached Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, “an elk-spotted wonderland of redwood groves and prairies.” There are too many great hikes along the 80-mile-long coastline to list, but one of the region’s true highlights is best viewed from a car. The Avenue of the Giants, in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, is a 31-mile road that passes through “some of the tallest, thickest trees in the world.”
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