About College of the Redwoods

College of the Redwoods (CR) is a public two-year community theoretical with its main campus in Eureka, California. It is part of the Redwoods Community College District that serves four counties and has two branch campuses, as skillfully as three extra sites. On-campus housing is within reach at the main campus.

Eureka (Hupa: do’-wi-lotl-ding, Karuk: uuth) is the principal city and county chair of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California. The city is located upon U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles (435 km) north of San Francisco and 100 miles (161 km) south of the Oregon border. At the 2010 census, the population of the city was 27,191, and the population of Greater Eureka was 45,034.

Eureka is the largest coastal city together with San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, and the westernmost city of on height of 25,000 residents in the 48 contiguous states. The proximity to the sea renders the city to have an definitely maritime climate past very little annual temperature differences and seasons mainly innate defined by the rainy winters and dry summers, whereas available inland areas are much hotter in summer. It is the regional middle for government, health care, trade, and the arts on the North Coast north of the San Francisco Bay Area. Greater Eureka, one of California’s major advertisement fishing ports, is the location of the largest deep-water harbor between San Francisco and Coos Bay, a stretch of about 500 miles (805 km).

The headquarters of both the Six Rivers National Forest and the North Coast Redwoods District of the California State Parks System are in Eureka. As entrepôt for hundreds of lumber mills that once existed in the area, the city played a leading role in the historic West Coast lumber trade. The entire city is a state historic landmark, which has hundreds of significant Victorian homes, including the nationally credited Carson Mansion, and the city has retained its indigenous 19th-century billboard core as a nationally credited Old Town Historic District. Eureka is home to California’s oldest zoo, the Sequoia Park Zoo.