Beautiful trails are easy to find in Northern California. But beautiful trails with hardly anyone else hiking them? That’s a ...

More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay. Now the since-abandoned train track could be transformed into a ...

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, former mining hamlets appeal to hikers, historians, and foodies. A replica of Sutter’s Mill, where gold was first spotted in Northern California, is ...