Six Rivers National Forest — Attraction in Willow Creek

Spend 3 days at a local campground and it was worth it. You can easily find solitude here, especially during the pandemic time. Take your time and check out the river access and you could swim, fish, kayak or simply chill and enjoy the view and the sound of rushing river. Be very careful of the current when you swim and wear life jacket even if you are a good swimmer. Water can look deceivingly calm but what lies beneath can catch you off guard. Also, a big plus if your car is AWD/4WD, chances are you may have to navigate some rough unpaved local forrest road/rivers access and FWD may be in trouble for steep and loose stuff. Other than that, what a beautiful place and I want to go back...

I felt like a great sense of being as one with the earth and mother nature . The air and the sky was clear and you can slightly smell the ocean and can feel the vibration of the earth her self , truly you can see a happier cleaner earth there and the people are very nice that you run into here and there . If u want a little bit of wild and the sense of community and desire peace and quiet and this is the place to go it has a little bit of everything Forest with beautiful trees mountains with beautiful snow on them and a neighbor called the ocean not far away within an hour's reach it truly is a little hidden pocket and this wonderful place Earth to go and visit I recommend...

The Six Rivers National Forest is an area of 1 million acres of which about 150,000 acres is old growth forest. The Six Rivers that make up this massive watershed are the Klamath, the Trinity, the Smith, the Mad, the Van Duzen, and the Eel Rivers. The forest spans 4 counties in the California NorthWest and they are as follows in descending order from most forested to least: Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Siskyou Counties. I myself am from Del Norte County and live near the Smith River which I believe with great bias to be the best area of this forest, but they are all beautiful and absolutely wondrous...