We continued our progress south down the Pacific coast. We left Kamp Klamath at the Klamath River mouth and headed back to 101 where we turned south. We only went a few miles before turning off 101 to travel one more time down the Newton Drury Parkway through Prairie Creek Redwoods SP. Not only is it a gorgeous drive, it is also shorter and requires less elevation change than 101. We met back up with 101 about 12 miles south and stayed the course through more great scenery.
US-101 has good paving and wide enough lanes but it corkscrews around quite a bit and has a few moderate hills to negotiate before dropping onto flat land near the Little River and McKinleyville. Not too much further on, we pulled off 101 in Arcata and slid into the Mad River Rapids RV Park. From where we set up our trailer, we can see no river or rapids. The park has a recreation room, pool, cable TV, adequate wifi, good RV space sizes and full hookups. Price is $36 a night although we used our Good Sam discount. There is also local tax of $17 from which I doubt we will see any tangible benefits.
After our relatively short drive (1.5 hours), we loafed for the remainder of the day. I know- we were bad. Where’s the whiskey?