Humboldt County
Humboldt County is in the North Coast of California. It is a special area of Northern California which is well known for its massive redwood trees, microbrews, herbal refreshments, and diverse culture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Eureka and Arcata.
Eureka
Eureka is a city in Humboldt County, California. With a population of slightly over 25,000, it is the largest coastal city on the West Coast of the United States north of San Francisco and south of Portland and the center of the California North Coast.
Arcata
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Arcata is a city in the North Coast of California. Arcata is a small university town on the north end of Humboldt Bay. It is well known for its hippie counter culture, progressive politics, and vegetarian restaurants.
Fortuna
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Fortuna is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River, approximately 9 miles from where it enters the Pacific Ocean, and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United States.
Destinations to Discover
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Ferndale
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Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County is in the North Coast region of California with a charming Victorian ambience.
Trinidad
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Trinidad is in Humboldt County, California, one of California's smallest incorporated cities by population. Trinidad is noted for its spectacular coastline with ten public beaches and offshore rocks, part of the California Coastal National Monument, of which Trinidad is a Gateway City.
Blue Lake
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Blue Lake is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States. Blue Lake is located on the Mad River in a deep valley, 16 miles northeast of Eureka, at an elevation of 131 feet.
McKinleyville
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McKinleyville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. McKinleyville is located 5.25 miles north of Arcata, at an elevation of 141 feet.
Garberville
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Garberville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the South Fork of the Eel River 52 miles south-southeast of Eureka, at an elevation of 535 feet.
Scotia
Scotia, formerly known as Forestville until 1888, is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Eel River along U.S. Route 101, 8.5 miles southeast of Fortuna and 244 miles north of San Francisco.
Humboldt County
- Type: county of California with 136,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Humboldt”, “Humboldt County, CA”, and “Humboldt County, California”
- Neighbors: Del Norte County, Mendocino County, Siskiyou County, and Trinity County
- Location: North Coast, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Humboldt County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Humboldt County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة هومبولت”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه هومبولت، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Հումբոլդտ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Humboldt”
- Asturian: “Humboldt (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Humboldt qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Humboldt”
- Basque: “Humboldt konderria”
- Bavarian: “Humboldt County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Humboldt County”
- Bishnupriya: “হামবোল্ডট কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “হামবোল্ডট কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Хъмбоулт”
- Catalan: “comtat de Humboldt”
- Cebuano: “Humboldt County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ھەمبۆلت”
- Chechen: “Гумбольдт”
- Chinese: “Humboldt Kūn”
- Chinese: “洪堡县”
- Chinese: “洪堡縣”
- Czech: “Humboldt County”
- Danish: “Humboldt County”
- Dutch: “Humboldt County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Humboldt”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Humboldt”
- Finnish: “Humboldtin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Humboldt”
- French: “Comté de Humboldt”
- Georgian: “ჰუმბოლდტის ოლქი”
- German: “Humboldt County”
- Gilaki: “هامبؤلت ٚ شأرستان”
- Gilaki: “هامبولت ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Χάμπολτ”
- Hebrew: “הומבולדט”
- Hebrew: “מחוז המבולדט”
- Hungarian: “Humboldt megye”
- Icelandic: “Humboldt County”
- Icelandic: “Humboldt-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Humboldt, California”
- Irish: “Contae Humboldt”
- Italian: “contea di Humboldt”
- Italian: “Contea di Humboldt”
- Italian: “Humboldt County”
- Japanese: “ハンボルト・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “ハンボルト郡”
- Korean: “험볼트군”
- Latin: “Humboldt Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Humboldt County”
- Low German: “Humboldt County”
- Malayalam: “ഹംബോൾട്ട് കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “हंबोल्ट काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “هامبولت شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “هامبولت شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Humboldt Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Humboldt County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Humboldt County i California”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Humboldt County”
- Norwegian: “Humboldt County”
- Ossetian: “Гумбольдт (зылд, Калифорни)”
- Ossetian: “Гумбольдт”
- Pampanga: “Humboldt County, California”
- Pampanga: “Humboldt County”
- Persian: “شهرستان هامبولت”
- Persian: “شهرستان هومبولت، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان هومبولت”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Humboldt”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Humboldt”
- Russian: “Гумбольдт”
- Russian: “Хамболт”
- Sardinian: “contea de Humboldt”
- Serbian: “Округ Хамболт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Humboldt County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Humboldt County”
- Slovenian: “Humboldt County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Humboldt”
- Spanish: “Condado de Humboldt (California)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Humboldt”
- Spanish: “Humboldt county”
- Swedish: “Humboldt County, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Humboldt County”
- Tagalog: “Humboldt County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Humboldt, California”
- Tatar: “Гумбольдт (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Гумбольдт”
- Tumbuka: “Humboldt County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Humboldt County”
- Turkish: “Humboldt County, CA”
- Turkish: “Humboldt County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Humboldt County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Humboldt County”
- Turkish: “Humboldt ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Humboldt ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Humboldt ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Humboldt İlçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Humboldt ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Гумбольдт”
- Urdu: “ہمبولٹ کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Humboldt”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Humboldt, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Humboldt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Humboldt, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Humboldt”
- Welsh: “Humboldt County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Humboldt County”
- Western Panjabi: “ہمبولٹ کاؤنٹی”
- Yue Chinese: “洪堡縣”
- “Humboldt”
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