24 Outdoor Recreation
Mendocino National Forest The Mendocino
National Forest runs on the west end of Tehama County. Some 65 miles long and 35 miles across, the Forest’s 913,306 federally- owned acres of mountains and
canyons
offer a variety of recreational opportunities — camping, hiking, backpacking, boating, fishing, hunting, nature study, photography and off-highway vehicle travel.
The only one of California’s 18 national forests not crossed by a paved road or highway, the Mendocino National Forest is especially attractive to people seeking an
outdoor experience of tranquility and solitude. The forest, however, is a working forest as well as a recreation land, and resource activities such as logging and
grazing do occur on
both
national forest lands and private holdings within the forest.
Elevations in the forest range from 750 feet in the Grindstone Creek Canyon in the Sacramento Valley foothills on the forest's eastern edge to the 8,092 feet of South Yolla Bolly Mountain in the northern part of the forest. The average
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