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| Head north on Indian Creek Road 7C01 for Jefferson Scenic Byway from Happy Camp to Oregon! Turn north at Parry's Market on Davis Road! Mile Markers and road numbers change from Happy Camp north on 7C01 then on 40S07 called Grayback Road to Oregon! |
MM 4 along Indian Creek Road, GPS 41d 50.7' 123d 23.3'. The Indian Creek
Road climbs through a rock bluff, hangs over the creek in a rock wall near the
"Canyon." Just above the 4 mile is""Devil's Boil" where the salmon jump up through
the waterfalls!
MM 6 GPS 41d 52.0' 123d 24.2' is the old one room Schoolhouse; the 2nd
place! It was first built by volunteers, such as my great-great grandfather Benoni
Swearingen, in 1885 at MM 9 Waddell Flat.
Road climbs through a rock bluff, hangs over the creek in a rock wall near the
"Canyon." Just above the 4 mile is""Devil's Boil" where the salmon jump up through
the waterfalls!
MM 6 GPS 41d 52.0' 123d 24.2' is the old one room Schoolhouse; the 2nd
place! It was first built by volunteers, such as my great-great grandfather Benoni
Swearingen, in 1885 at MM 9 Waddell Flat.
| MM 10... Of Grayback Road?? Jefferson Scenic Byway going up Indian Creek Road to Oregon! You have come to the end of California! The 42nd north parallel! You have left the Klamath National Forest and entered the Siskiyou National Forest. Mile markers have changed. It is the Oregon Border! At Page Mountain Snow Park just a mile down the road, sledding and cross-country skiing! You can see the Illinois River's broad valley all the way to the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area. But that is another story! |
People come and people go like the sunset and the rainbow but the mountains are still here In the words of Native Americans... Only the mountains live forever! |
| Gold buried at Kelly Lake! In 1876, as Del Norte County Sheriff, John C. Wood arrested three Chinese men and an Indian for robbing Horace Gasquet's store in Happy Camp and killing clerk Michael O'Mara... and setting the store on fire. Wood had a posse of eighty riders. Family stories told me that $4,000 in gold was robbed but was never recovered... Some believe that the gold is still up there! |
MM 7.5 is the Waddell Family Homestead. My great grandparents John and Alice Sedros homesteaded here in 1900. It is the only place on Indian Creek...or Jefferson Scenic Byway, where Preston Peak can be seen! Miles in the distance, from which you can see the Pacific Ocean...over by Crescent City. Or you can see all the way from Preston Peak to........... Mt. Shasta! |
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| At right is two of my fishermen back in 1972... Dan Deppen and Ron Dean. Two deer hunting guides go fishing with a Klamath River Steelhead fishing guide of Jim Waddell in a boat of Jim Roads. Smoked Steelhead from fresh-run Steelies is very tasty? By guide Jim Waddell. |
