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Comfort, affordability with great ocean views!
At The Beachcomber Motel, that's our promise!
We offer many room types with all the amenities you've come to expect.
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- Visit Art Galleries on Main St.
- Walk across the Pudding Creek Trestle to Glass Beach
- Play and dig in the sand dunes at Pudding Creek Beach
- Play in the water and "tidepool" at Pudding Creek Beach
- Go "beach hopping" with friends
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- Walk out to the boardwalk-style seal watching station at Mackerricker State Park
- Watch the waves at Point Cabrillo Lighthouse
- Jug Handle Ecological Staircase
- Visit the Pygmy Forest on Little River Airport Rd. ~ 2.8 mi south
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And for a scenic drive....................
Visit Bowling Ball Beach
Visit Avenue of The Giants
Visit Pacific Star Winery -
driving North toward Westport with spectacular views. Bring a picnic and taste wine on their picnic table overlooking the ocean ~ ~ ~
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Glass Beach
Glass Beach Video by Matt Ross
Next to The Beachcomber Motel
in Fort Bragg on Mendocino Coast
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Skunk Train
Ride The Skunk Train in Fort Bragg
Through The California Redwoods
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Mendocino
Discover Mendocino California
WInd, Wilderness and Waves
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Coastal Trail
The Pudding Creek Trestle
on The California Coastal Trail
Outside The Beachcomber Motel
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Mushrooms and Mendocino! Read these great articles:
Mushroom Madness in Mendocino County - The Fungi Never Stops ~ from The Tasting Table
Something for Every Interest in Wine Country ~ from The Press Democrat
Ready: Mendocino Mushroom Fest - Save Room for Shrooms ~ from The SF Chronicle
Authors of new cookbook offer class for kids ~ from The Press Democrat Article
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The Five-Point Weekend Escape Plan: Pick Your Pinot in Mendocino County
The rugged valley just west of Napa offers better rates, oceanside vineyards, and hype-free culture. Find postcard-worthy ocean views, mushroom dumplings or one of the mushroom-themed events like a feast aboard the Skunk Train. Then drive from the coast through a forest of giant Redwoods and corkscrew turns as you make your way to the arid valley.
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The Beachcomber Motel featured in KidAround Magazine!
"We stayed at the incomparable Beachcomber, that sits literally on an easy-to-navigate incline over a stretch of sugar sand called Pudding Creek Beach. Our two kids ran right out of our room's sliding door, down the incline, onto the sand, and never wanted to leave. They built sand castles, played catch with the waves and marveled at crabs while I marveled at them."
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6 Food Festivals That Are Worth the Trip
Your summer grill may soon go cool for another year, but the nation's fall food festivals are just heating up. Northern California's Mendocino County is an internationally renowned wine terroir—and when the autumn rains hit, the region comes alive with wild mushrooms with The Wine & Mushroom Festival (November 6–15) and that happy annual invasion with mushroom-themed menus in area restaurants and much more.
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  Abalone Season on The Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg
California's popular red abalone sport fishery season is now open north of San Francisco Bay. Divers from near and far visit the Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg to dive for this beautiful and delicious gift from the sea. Here at The Beachcomber Motel (abalone central!), we offer spacious barbeque decks and grills for your family and friends to enjoy a wonderful abalone feed after a day of diving.
{ Watch diving video with required DFG procedures. }
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Northern California Getaways Examiner: Which Northern California County offers summer festivals with cowgirls, salmon, art, and music?
Some destinations rely on their notoriety to draw tourists back year after year. Mendocino County has a different agenda. Combining rich redwood forests, windswept beaches, and artsy towns with one-of-a-kind festivals, San Francisco's northern hippie neighbor makes it nearly impossible not to take advantage of her riches year after year.
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Beautiful Sea Glass at Glass Beach Fort Bragg CA
Glass Beach - Attracting curiousity while bewitching. Wave-worn and abundant, Glass Beach's beautiful treasures of polished glass are spread along the shoreline of this section of The Mendocino coast. What is now a beach covered almost completely in polished sea glass treasures, Glass Beach started as the town dump in the mid 1900s - which was then
the Sunday-go-to-meetingplace, a weekly social gathering.
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Planning your brewery tour of the Pacific Coast CA
By Scott Martelle, LA Times, June 04, 2009
Driving is the only way -- and is the whole point. It's a much more interesting coast when you stay off the big roads. Use Highway 1 and U.S. 101 whenever possible. Where to stay? The Beachcomber Motel, 1111 N. Main St., Fort Bragg; Decent prices and a first-rate location -- the ocean right outside your door.
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 In Fort Bragg on The Mendocino Coast ~ A Better Place to Just BE
When you mention Mendocino, most people think of the coastal town of
Mendocino Village. But the county of Mendocino, covering more than 3,800 square
miles, encompasses a wide variety of terrain, from epic blustering coastal bluffs to
majestic redwood forests and rolling hills velveted with vineyards. And stay at The Beachcomber Motel where the ocean is your front yard...
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 Surfing Lost Coast - National Geographic Top 10 American Adventures
Somewhere along the 80 miles of glorious northern California wilderness coastline between Fort Bragg and Eureka is a secret surf break as perfect in form as in setting. The Lost Coast wave is the stuff of American legend: a big, consistent, year-round swell that washes onto a rocky shore with high energy and perfect curvature—fast, clean, with long, long sweeps.
{ Read National Geographic Article Online }
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Beachcomber Resident Artist Dan Frei
with The Mendocino Calendar Girls!
Mendocino Art Center 50th Anniversary Exotic Calendar
"Remember the 'Calendar Girls' movie? That was a beautiful thing, but the pictures were predictable Once you've seen one, you've practically seen 'em all," Wagner said.
Hence, the 20-month, 2010-11 Mendocino Art Center 50th Anniversary Exotic Calendar, due for publication Aug. 1 at $25 at The Beachcomber Motel!
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Historic Mendocio Heritage Days
Coming to The Mendocino Coast May 2009 - The Annual Mendocino Coast Heritage days really has something for everyone and all ages. Many events will be taking place and have been put together to celebrate our historic preservation efforts from water towers to heritage roses to lighthouses. {
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Art Splash Whale Migration...at the Fort Bragg Whale Festival!
The 27th Annual Fort Bragg Whale Festival scheduled for March 21 - 22, 2009. “Art Splash…Whale Migration” will feature art by more than 70 professional and community artists whose work will be sold at silent auction to benefit to artists and community. A beautiful whale sculpture is on display in our lobby at The Beachcomber Motel, "on the beach!"
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Road Trip Mendocino from OUT Magazine
Napa and Sonoma are well-trodden routes; Mendocino, not so much. Its isolation has served it well. This part of Northern California is sparsely inhabited, refreshingly underdeveloped, and about as friendly a slice of America you'll find. Mendocino feels more like New England than California ...
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Treasure Hunt - Beachcombers revel in the booty that winter storms wash ashore
Try Winter Beachcombing at The Beachcomber Motel!
As serious beachcombers know, prime time for finding treasures of the tide is winter and spring, after storms travel throughout the coast, delivering and exposing onto the beaches such finds as fossilized snails, clams, all manner of shells, the occasional Japanese glass fishing float, petrified wood, rainbow assortments of polished gemstones, and much more.
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 Paddle on a mellow, meandering, evening paddle of the Noyo Harbor and River. Enjoy a relaxing pace (or lack of pace), evening lighting, and bird watching from a kayak. Great blue herons, night herons, kingfishers, osprey, cormorants, ducks, geese, gulls, and migratory birds are commonly seen in the river, on the banks, flying overhead, or perched in the trees.
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 Mendocino is named a Preserve America Community
CONGRATULATIONS TO MENDOCINO ON BEING NAMED A PRESERVE AMERICA COMMUNITY!! There are only 23 in California!! The official White House letter received from Honorary Preserve America Chair Laura Bush states: "The preservation and enjoyment of your historical and cultural resources celebrate an important part of our nation's heritage. You honor our nation's past and inspire and educate for the future."
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 Travel green with these eco-friendly California cities
Mendocino
A former logging town turned historic preserve — bordered by state parks, with redwoods in one direction and ocean cliffs in the other. Half the county lands are protected. If the locals had their druthers, that percentage would probably increase. Mendo residents are artists, small farmers, organic winemakers, Berkeley graduates or a combination thereof. {
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 Going Green on The Mendocino Coast
Here at The Beachcomber Motel, we take conservation seriously -- along with a rapidly growing number of Mendocino Coast businesses, institutions, and residents; preserving our natural resources for visitors and locals alike.
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 Flights to The Mendocino Coast
Convenient and inexpensive flights into our nearby Sonoma County Airport -- from Las Vegas, LA and Seattle - enjoy our ocean, the redwoods and do some wine tasting, for your perfect ocean getaway to The Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg! TOre moe info, visit: sonomacountyairport.com,
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- Movies Filmed on The Mendocino Coast - SHARK SWARM!
- The Mendocino County Film Office is pleased to announce the airing of "SHARK SWARM" Filmed in July 2007 - featuring The Mendocino Coast and areas of Southern California. { Watch trialer! }
- The Fort Bragg Coastal Trail Expands - Reconnecting to our coast
- Fort Bragg California, a town of 7,000 residents located on the remote and spectacular Mendocino Coast, is a three hour drive north of San Francisco. {
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- So... You want to live on the coast
- Where can you buy a home for $150,000? $500,000 and $1 million plus? We have 16 appealing and surprising options to consider. Living on the coast doesn't have to be just a dream. Though only a few of us can afford a mansion on Maui, simpler homes on other coasts may well be within reach.
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Mendocino Wine & Crab Days and Taste Mendocino - Coastal Living magazine has a list of the top 10 seafood and wine festivals in its June issue. One of the 10 is "The Crab & Wine Days and Taste Mendocino" here on The Mendocino Coast. This is a winter festival held over several weekends in late January/early February celebrating Dungeness crab season. Cooking classes, crab tours, fishing excursions, dinners, and crab cake cookoff & tasting! - Associated Press
California Wine Country 101
Take a virtual trip through Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, an American feast for the senses like no other, a journey where savoring the best wines, food, spa experiences, and outdoor adventures (picnic anyone?) is commonplace. Here's to an exercise in gourmet, picture perfect indulgence.
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Seafood and Wine Festivals
These events celebrate two of our favorite things -- seafood and wine!
Read more about Crab & Wine Days in Mendocion CA! Showcasing locally caught crab and locally produced wines, this celebration (January 23 and 24, 2009) kicks off Taste Mendocino.
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Hanging Out in Mendocino
Mendocino is a beautiful county in one of the most unspoiled areas in California. There are redwood forests, lakes, beaches, and views that will take your breath away. Many outdoor enthusiasts live here just so they can take advantage of Mendocino running, walking, hiking, birding, cycling and horse-back opportunities.
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Mendocino County is Fun for Fido - Pet Friendly Fort Bragg - From the majestic redwoods to the rolling hlls of vineyards to the craggy Pacific Coast, Mendocino County has long been a refuge for artists and animal lovers from all walks of life. { read full article }
The Pudding Creek Trestle Renovation is Complete! - A ribbon cutting ceremony was held recently for the opening of the restored Pudding Creek Trestle! For the first time in decades, people may now "walk the haul road" across the trestle, connecting Ten Mile Beach with the City of Fort Bragg. See more at:
mendocinofun.com,
youtube.com,
yachtchartersmagazine.com
Fort Bragg Mill Site - Busy Year Underway - The vision of a redeveloped Fort Bragg mill site moves forward this year as Georgia Pacific completes several environmental studies. The city of Fort Bragg has recently hired RRM Design Group to help guide the development of the Specific Plan for future land use. Read more at fortbraggmillsite.com
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