Arcata: US-101 : South Of SR-299 - Looking South (C004)
Arcata is best known in California for Cal Poly Humboldt, the third polytechnic university in the California State University system. The city stands on the northern edge of Humboldt Bay, where the Pacific coast meets a low, forested plain shaped by the nearby redwood belt. Downtown is arranged around Arcata Plaza, the civic square laid out when the settlement was founded in 1850. Arcata lies within the ancestral territory of the Wiyot people; the city returned Indian Island in Humboldt Bay to the Wiyot Tribe. Its compact centre, university presence and access to coastal and redwood environments give the community a character distinct from larger Californian cities.
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Arcata sits on Humboldt Bay in northern California, where the Pacific coast’s cool, wet climate supports redwood country and tidal wetlands. The city is closely tied to Cal Poly Humboldt, California’s northernmost polytechnic university, whose campus gives the compact downtown an academic, outdoors-oriented character. Arcata Plaza remains the social centre, ringed by independent shops, cafés and older commercial buildings. On the bayfront, the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary combines restored marshland, trails and a wastewater-treatment system. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Arcata and Humboldt Bay.
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