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A Place With Alps

Coffee Creek, CA-3, Trinity County (10/16/18) Jeri Rangel

Bowerman Barn, Covnington Mill, Trinity County (10/16/18) Jeri Rangel

What place has alps, cowboys, an untamed river and empty roads that wind through the yellow-splashed wild?

Jeri Rangel found the answer as she drove California highway 3, with not a car or truck ahead or behind. She knew that those that are, pull over to let you pass. That is, if you’re in a hurry, and no one seems to be.

Along the highway, she passed corrals with horses grazing idly. Along the Trinity River, lemony bigleaf maple and rosy dogwood lit up the woods.

You’re on the highway to Alps they call Trinity, in a county of the same name, traveling the vast Shasta Cascade region of UpStateCA. 

  • Trinity County (3,000′) – Patchy (10-50%)