Articles https://www.visitredwoods.com/articles/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:23:57 +0000 Freestyle Bullfighting Returns to Fortuna. Sasquatch might too. No bull https://www.visitredwoods.com/articles/post/fortuna-rodeo-centennial/ https://www.visitredwoods.com/articles/post/fortuna-rodeo-centennial/#comments https://www.visitredwoods.com/articles/post/fortuna-rodeo-centennial/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0700

Fortuna Lodging Alliance salutes the oldest rodeo in Northern California

FORTUNA – Since 1921, this Humboldt County town has invited the toughest cowboys across California and beyond to test their

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Follow the SpongeBob Trail on the Redwood Coast

Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the hit Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, died on November 26. He was 57. Hillenburg, a Humboldt State

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Earned media value tops $450,000

Eureka – The San Francisco Chronicle, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Northern California, devoted its entire travel section to Humboldt County on Sunday,

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County, Eureka also post record bed taxes in 2017

Eureka, CA – Total traveler spending generated a record $448 million for Humboldt County in 2017, an increase of four percent over 2016, according to

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Magazine ranks Ten Best In The US for 2018

Eureka, Calif. – Each year, Lonely Planet asks its community of travel experts – in-house editors, researchers on the road and locals on the ground – to

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Eureka, CA – The Victorian seaport of Eureka earned second place in Sunset Magazine’s list of “Game-Changing Places to Live in the West,” to be published in the February 2018 edition. The magazine’s

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