North Coast · CA
Shelter Cove
The fishing village Highway 1 couldn't reach.
- Population
- 803 (2020 census)
- Lighthouse moved
- 1998
Then
- Before 1850s
The Sinkyone people live on this coast.
- 1998
The Cape Mendocino Lighthouse is flown in by helicopter to Mal Coombs Park.
Now
Road builders gave up on routing Highway 1 along the Lost Coast, so the village is reached by a winding mountain road, by boat or by its own airstrip. The King Range rises straight behind it.