Destinations · California
Cottonwood
CA · 40.3889, -122.2819
Mendocino National Forest and Lassen National Forest lie within 30 miles of Cottonwood, California.
Get in
The only main way to get into Cottonwood is by car.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Cottonwood are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Public land
- Mendocino National Forest · 15 mi
- Lassen National Forest · 20 mi
- Shasta-Trinity National Forest · 22 mi
Campgrounds
- Camp Discovery Group Campground · 17 mi
- Sycamore Grove Campground · 17 mi
- Jones Valley Inlet Shoreline Campground · 24 mi
- Lower Jones Valley Campground · 24 mi
- Upper Jones Valley Campground · 24 mi
- Arbuckle Flat Boat-In Campground · 27 mi
- Bailey Cove Campground · 28 mi
Named places
- Cottonwood Historic District · 0 mi
- Volonte Park · 4 mi
- Anderson Veterans Memorial · 4 mi
- Reading Adobe Historical Marker · 4 mi
- North Street Park · 5 mi
- Anderson River Park · 6 mi
- California-Oregon Highway Historical Marker · 6 mi
- Round Mountain · 6 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Anderson · 4 mi
- Palo Cedro · 11 mi
- Redding · 14 mi
- Red Bluff · 15 mi
- Shasta · 17 mi
- Tehama County · 18 mi