Current conditions
- National Weather Service API — regional grid forecasts for Myers Flat, Orick, and Crescent City.
- USGS Water Services — Eel River at Scotia (11477000), Klamath River near Klamath (11530500), and Smith River near Crescent City (11532500).
- Caltrans Highway Conditions — route summaries; see QuickMap for current map context.
- California State Parks, Humboldt Redwoods State Park — official park notices.
Interactive map
Map interface: Leaflet, BSD-2-Clause. Base map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Data Commons Open Database License. Attribution is also displayed inside the map.
Homepage photographs
- Forest: “US 101 through the redwood forest,” Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress; public domain. Source record.
- River: “Humboldt Redwoods river landscape,” Sarah Stierch, released under CC0. Source record.
- Coast: “Northern California coast from Route 101,” Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress; public domain. Source record.
Web-sized derivatives were prepared in the Jay Smith Road media archive and copied into this site’s separate asset root. No upstream image is hotlinked.
Historical map
The 1876 Township 2 South, Range 3 East, Humboldt Meridian image is a county survey record copy, reference 100 UR 445. See the Jay Smith Road catalog record for description and citation. It is historical evidence, not a current boundary, ownership, road, or access map.
Travel and history references
Core planning and historical context is drawn from the National Park Service, California State Parks, Caltrans, NOAA/NWS, USGS, and linked Tribal and public-record sources. External agencies remain authoritative for their own notices.