You will be taking the train on party day but did you know that you could ride rail bikes down the same tracks? Use code "Hart" for a complimentary ride. Passes available from 8/21/2021 to 8/20/2022 (unavailable 8/27 or 8/28). Limited to one booking per party. Book thru the webpage, www.skunktrain.com, for a small fee or book through the station (707-964-6371) for no additional fees.
The famous Glass Beach is where a high concentration of colored sea glass shimmers along the shore, the result of residents dumping their trash into the ocean in the first half of the 1960s. Directions: Take Hwy 1 to Fort Bragg, Turn West on Elm (Denny's Restaurant on corner) Go to ocean, park in lot. Walk to ocean, turn South/left at the bluffs edge, you'll find a walking path down to coves of glass.
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens are the #2 garden in Sunset magazine's list of top public gardens and includes a magical 47 acres of manicured gardens, fern-ringed ponds, intimate pocket gardens, and wildflower-strewn bluffs at ocean's edge.
Don't miss our favorite beach in Fort Bragg. Jug Handle State Natural Reserve beckons visitors with spectacular ocean views, peaceful forests, and a hike through half a million years of ecological history. The reserve’s 2.5-mile Ecological Staircase Trail explores three wave-cut terraces formed by the continental glaciers, rising seas, and tectonic plates that built the Coast Range.
This is one of the newest segments of the California Coastal Trail in Mendocino County. The wildlife viewing opportunities here are varied and superb, and the 5-mile long trail is easy and accessible to all kinds of people. The new trail has two Fort Bragg entry points - a northern entrance, with parking at the west end of Elm Street near Glass Beach, and a southern entrance, with parking at the west end of Cypress Street north of the Noyo bridge.