Anybody Know anything about Yreka, CA? The Good, Bad, & Ugly Please.

[masmdu]

Yreka (NOT Eureka)
Am thinking of moving and have found an opportunity in Yreka, CA but I don't know anything about the place...any info would be very helpful.

Thanks!

[masmdu]

1. anybody?

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[Taverner]

2. It's Freeperville

and home to a surprisingly large number of ex-cons....

[masmdu]

3. thanks...anybody else?

[IChing]

4. It was suppose to be the capital of Jefferson State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Jefferson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yreka,_California
very independent area
Popular bumper sticker

Politicians need to changed as often as diapers.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. ex-cons - could be because it's near

Susanville/Lassen Co., home of a state penitentiary.

Yreka is also surrounded by national parks and wildlife reserves. It's probably a beautiful place to live.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. I had a dear friend in college who was from Yreka.

She was beyond cool. Fabulous musician and champion water skier.

She's the only experience I have w/ the place.

Good luck!

[China_cat]

7. I've been through it a couple times

hitchhiking up and down the west coast. I remember it as a beautiful area full of nasty people.

[Richardo]

8. Best business name palindrome ever: Yreka Bakery

:thumbsup:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Whoa!

[masmdu]

10. Much apreciated...keep it coming!

Thanks

[Jara sang]

11. Views of Mount Shasta

Bigfoots and UFOs, what more could you ask for?

[miss_kitty]

12. Drove through it a couple of times

nothing else. Yreka, Richland? Are the opportunities you are finding in these places involving 'gatekeeping' and 'Hell'?

[XemaSab]

13. It's a BEAUTIFUL area

It's sort of a transition between coniferous forest and high desert. It gets very cold there in the winter (by California standards).

The people are mostly freeps and new agers, but there are some cool people in the area too (well, the new agers are cool, but some are VERY odd). There are also some pretty cool towns nearby that you could live in and commute to Yreka proper from, and LOTS of opportunity for outdoor adventures, such as backpacking, skiing, rockhunting, birding, botanizing, etc. The hunting is OFF THE HOOK if you're into that (but so is the birding, for the same reasons). There's probably not much culture there (other than new age culture). It's not too far from Redding, Klamath Falls, and Ashland. I'd guess it's 4.5 hours from Sacramento and 6 hours from San Francisco, and maybe 3 hours from the coast? But it's really close to Mt. Shasta, the Trinities, the Klamath Basin, and other PHENOMENAL outdoor areas.

I'd check it out!

It might be the perfect place!