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Beyond the Golden Gate: California's North Coast
Beyond the Golden Gate California's North Coast Author:Larry Ulrich, Roy Parvin North of the Golden Gate Bridge the legendary coastal route, Highway 1, takes a left turn from growing population corridors to enter the unique world of California's North Coast. A landscape of dramatic headlands and rocky, jagged shorelines carved by surf and rivers, the coast is home to rolling woodlands, bucolic wine country, sleeping fishing... more » villages, and artistic communities strong on preserving a slower pace in life. The North Coast's wet climate nurtures a great arboreal forest-notably the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens-that has served the timber industry for the last century, and is now the forefront of environmental concern in the region. The five coastal counties north of San Francisco-Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte-beckon both visitors and residents with spectacular scenery, backroad adventure, and the enveloping mystery of primeval forest.« less