Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
North Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 18
- Established
- 1955
parks detail
- Hook
- Bluff-top 1853 Army post above Humboldt Bay where U.S. Grant briefly served, with logging-era steam donkeys
- More
- A young, miserable Captain Ulysses S. Grant served here in 1854 before resigning his commission. The logging exhibit runs restored steam donkeys and locomotives on occasional demonstration days, with Humboldt Bay spread below.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.792, -124.19