Yolo County Fairgrounds Woodland, California
Mileage: 50,961
Today was about getting close to Sacramento. The kids have a plane that leaves at 7am tomorrow. We traveled down Eureka Highway 299. This is a scenic road through the Shasta Trinity National Forest. The views were very pretty. Curving road on mountain ledges followed the Trinity River. We crossed the Salmon and Trinity Mountains.
At Whiskeytown National Recreation Area we noticed lots of scorched earth and blackened trees. There was a humongous fire, the Carr Fire, along 299 this summer. 39,000 of the park’s 42,000 acres were devastated. In addition, we saw several homes that burned in the blaze. The air still smells like smoke and the sky is hazy.
At Redding, we turned onto 5S. This is a major freeway that passes through orchards, hay fields, and other agricultural areas. We saw more than 10 double tractor trailer loads of tomatoes and 3 more of onions.
The hay bales were stacked in open fields.
In the haze, we could see mountains to our west and off to the east.
Our campground is at the Yolo County Fairgrounds. It is 11 miles from Sacramento International Airport.
Dinner at Father Paddy’s Irish Pub.
