The GO Road

After not having been up there in 20 years, Andrew, Calvin, and I went up there. We have been deer hunting from the other side but had never been all the way through. We got a late start and I was able to hike about 3 miles and see the southern side. We are going to go up again and hike all the way through next time.

"In the early 1960s a road was proposed that would bisect the Southern Siskiyou Mountains and connect the towns of Gasquet and Orleans, hence the name GO Road. Building this road would open up vast areas of timber to the logging industry. The plan was to start at each end and eventually connect the two roads (sort of like the trans-continental railroad). In the late 1960s and early 1970s opposition to the building of the GO Road was initiated by the Sierra Club and the Yurok Tribe. After years of litigation, construction on the road was permanently halted. The end result is a two lane paved road that ends abruptly in a thick forest. Seven miles away is another two lane road that also ends abruptly."