Garberville travel guide

Garberville is a small unincorporated town in southern Humboldt County, California, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2000 census. It is approximately 200 miles north of San Francisco, California, and within a fifteen-minute drive to Humboldt Redwoods State Park and a sixty-minute drive to Eureka, the county seat.
The first settlers arrived in 1853 to what was then named "Dogtown." The town was later self-named by its postmaster at the time, Jacob C. Garberhttp://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=10194.
Garberville is the primary town in the area known as the Mateel Region, consisting of parts of the Mattole and Eel River watersheds in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties.
Because to the distance of Garberville and other regional communities from their respective county seats of Eureka and Ukiah, there is a notable lack of mass transportation and other public services. A group of local residents once attempted to qualify a "Sequoia County" initiative to secede from both Humboldt and Mendocino with Garberville as the new county seat, although the campaign ended after they failed to gather enough signatures. Bioregional efforts continue with the recent formation of the Sequoia County Greens as a local Green Party chapter, which meets regularly in Garberville. (...) more....