With its majestic redwood groves and 33mi of beaches, this 106,000-acre site encompasses three state parks: Prairie Creek Redwoods, Del Norte Coast Redwoods and Jedediah Smith Redwoods. In 1968 Congress set aside 58,000 acres of land to be preserved ..

This large historical museum occupies a former courthouse building complete with old jail cells upstairs. The highlight of the collection, which includes Tolowa and Yurok artifacts and antique mining equipment, is the 5,000-pound First Order Fresnel ..

A short walk across a sandy spit leads to Battery Point, once the site of three brass cannons salvaged from an 1855 shipwreck. Established here the following year, this stone and masonry lighthouse warned ships away from the dangerous rocks at the ha..