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Article: Elk's domain - Sinkyone Wilderness is rugged, remote, but only 5 hours from San Francisco and not hard to get around in. (Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, California)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- May 1, 1986
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Elk's domain
With a beauty both delicate and wild, like that of an Oriental landscape painting, Sinkyone rises from the Pacific, part of a ruggedly unspoiled stretch of northern California known as the Lost Coast. Here seasonal fog fingers through stream-cleft ravines; thick with redwoods and fir, madrones, tanbark oak, and rangy pepper-woods, the canyons drop precipitously from high cliffs down to the sea; wildlife abounds. This is where State 1 suddenly veers inland, unable to engineer its way through the formidable coastal terrain.
Oddly, access to this wild treasure is not really difficult--at least, not in dry weather. Sinkyone Wilderness State ...