This is the southermost of five sections hiking the entire Lost Coast Trail from North (Mattole Beach) to South (Usal):
1: komoot.de/tour/8418519 Mattole to Randall Creek
2: komoot.de/tour/8420255 Randall Creek to Horse Mtn Creek
3: komoot.de/tour/8420259 Horse Mtn Creek-Shelter Cove-Jones Beach (Sinkyone Wilderness State Park)
4: komoot.de/tour/8442837 Sinkyone Wilderness SP -Anderson Gulch
5: komoot.de/tour/8442963 Anderson Gulch to Usal (Southern End)
6: komoot.de/tour/8420215 Car shuttle back to Mattole
The Lost Coast is a mostly natural and development-free area of the California North Coast in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, which includes the King Range. It was named the "Lost Coast" after the area experienced depopulation in the 1930s. In addition, the steepness and related geo-technical challenges of the coastal mountains made this stretch of coastline too costly for state highway or county road builders to establish routes through the area, leaving it the most undeveloped and remote portion of the California coast.
Note: most of the trail in this and the 3rd section going off from Shelter Cove Road all the way down south to Usal trailhead is not yet on Open Street Map (which is the base for Komoot) as of the date we hiked here in April 2016. So download this tour to your komoot app or the gpx file to your preferred GPS/app. Sinkyone Wilderness State Park lies on the southern portion of the Lost Coast, a 60-mile stretch of wilderness comprising the park and the King Range National Conservation Area.
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Distance 9.06 km

Uphill 490 m

Downhill 580 m

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Sunday 21 December

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10°C

98 %

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Max wind speed: 30.0 km/h

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Location: Mendocino County, California, United States

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