Lost Coast and redwoods loop from Concord
AI-generated. Pavement primary. Shelter Cove Road is steep, paved, and tight; the redwood days are slow by design.
Day 1 — Concord to Ukiah via Clear Lake
Miles: About 201 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: 8:00am Huckleberry’s Breakfast & Lunch (shared meet, optional).
Lunch: Clearlake / Lakeport — confirm open.
Dinner: Ukiah — confirm hours.
Stay: Vichy Springs Resort, 2605 Vichy Springs Rd, Ukiah, CA — historic mineral-springs resort. Official: vichysprings.com · (707) 462-9515. Book and confirm yourself; no rates, availability, or motorcycle parking claimed here.
Side quest: Highway 16 through Cache Creek Canyon above Rumsey — the quiet canyon between Esparto and Clear Lake most riders never try.
Day 2 — Ukiah to Eureka via the Avenue of the Giants
Miles: About 180 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: Ukiah — confirm hours.
Lunch: Garberville — confirm open.
Dinner: Eureka Old Town — confirm hours.
Stay: Carter House Inns, 301 L St, Eureka, CA — Victorian inn in Old Town; Tripadvisor about 4.4/5 in listings checked Oct 2026. Official: carterhouse.com · (707) 444-8062. Book and confirm yourself; no rates, availability, or motorcycle parking claimed here.
Side quest: Ferndale’s Victorian main street and its hillside pioneer cemetery — a real 1800s cemetery, fitting for October, with no hauntings claimed.
Day 3 — Eureka loop to Crescent City and Hiouchi redwoods
Miles: About 204 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: Carter House Inns serves breakfast per its site; confirm.
Lunch: Crescent City — confirm open.
Dinner: Eureka — confirm hours.
Stay: Carter House Inns, 301 L St, Eureka, CA — Victorian inn in Old Town; Tripadvisor about 4.4/5 in listings checked Oct 2026. Official: carterhouse.com · (707) 444-8062. Book and confirm yourself; no rates, availability, or motorcycle parking claimed here. Second night.
Side quest: Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway through Prairie Creek Redwoods — paved, slow, and full of old growth and elk. Jedediah Smith redwoods at Hiouchi on the turn.
This is an out-and-back on US-101 north of Eureka, so some road repeats. Shorten at Klamath if you only want the redwoods.
Day 4 — Eureka to Mendocino via Shelter Cove
Miles: About 193 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: Carter House Inns — confirm.
Lunch: Shelter Cove — confirm open; services are thin.
Dinner: Mendocino village — confirm hours.
Stay: MacCallum House, 45020 Albion St, Mendocino, CA — Victorian inn and restaurant in the village. Official: www.maccallumhouse.com · (707) 937-0289. Book and confirm yourself; no rates, availability, or motorcycle parking claimed here.
Side quest: Shelter Cove on the Lost Coast — the one paved way down to that coastline, steep and tight on Shelter Cove Road. The Highway 1 descent from Leggett to Westport is the payoff.
Day 5 — Mendocino to Healdsburg via Willits and Hopland
Miles: About 174 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: MacCallum House includes breakfast (8–10am weekdays per its site).
Lunch: Willits — confirm open.
Dinner: Healdsburg plaza — confirm hours.
Stay: Hotel Healdsburg, 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, CA — on the plaza; Tripadvisor about 4.3/5 in listings checked Oct 2026. Official: www.hotelhealdsburg.com · (707) 431-2800. Book and confirm yourself; no rates, availability, or motorcycle parking claimed here.
Side quest: The Skunk Train depot in Willits — a real 1885 logging railroad; check its schedule if you want to see a train move.
Highway 1 north again to Leggett, then US-101 south — this repeats the Day 4 coast in reverse so the coast gets ridden in both light directions.
Day 6 — Healdsburg to Concord via Napa and Sonoma
Miles: About 196 miles by OSRM on OpenStreetMap through these stops, measured for this page. Not an odometer reading. Google’s total can differ.
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Breakfast: Healdsburg — confirm hours.
Lunch: Sonoma plaza — confirm open.
Dinner: Back near Concord — confirm hours.
Side quest: Mission San Francisco Solano on the Sonoma plaza — the last of California’s 21 missions, from 1823.
Week of Monday, October 12, 2026
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