Travel writer with 50-country resume recommends Eureka
Eureka Boardwalk. Photo via Humboldt Last Week.
In the latest news podcast episode of Humboldt Last Week
A travel writer who’s been to over 50 countries recently had some nice things to say about Eureka.
Via her website Eternal Escapades, blogger Amanda Elk notes she enjoyed Eureka’s Victorian architecture, art, weed culture, nearby redwoods, food, drink locations, and the small-town feel.
“From one coast to the other, we picked up a rental car in San Francisco and made another six-hour journey on land to Eureka, California – the gateway to the Redwoods,” writes Elk. “What we found there was way more than we had even bargained for… on entry it seems a bit run down and industrial. Do not let that fool you! The hidden charms of the city are vast, and the weed culture is as strong as you’ll find it anywhere in the country. No lie, (Eureka) quickly became one of my most favorite visited places in the States.”
Reddit Humboldt shared this as well.
Episode description:
More parking-lot-to-housing proposals in Eureka, a drive-in movie reminder, an upcoming Crabs baseball documentary, overnights soon at the old Scotia Inn, lots of flight options, a hip-hop show, Eureka export Sara Bareilles gets another comedy season with ‘Girls5eva,’ an Anthrax member gets some localized Mr. Bungle ink, childcare woes, safe swimming is encouraged, a brother-on-brother murder has a mental-health-related outcome, a travel blogger recommends Eureka, proposed new degrees at Humboldt State, and more.
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There’s weeds in every urban parking lot and alleyway in America.
Why are Eureka’s weeds special? Weeds are really a thing???
Our weeds have culture.
high class culture
What kind of shit hole places does she go to that she recommends Eureka? great place to visit if you want an abundance of drugs, Weed or make someone disappear. Other than that the beauty of the place can not be enjoyed without the threat of being robbed by a tweeker.
My job takes me all over North America and I’ve visited hundreds of small and medium cities.
There are few places that compare to Eureka and Humboldt county for beauty and recreational opportunity. Most people here are great. I’ve been here for 40 years and lived in Eureka for the majority of that time. Never been “robbed by a tweaker”. Nor have my friends.
Does Eureka have issues? Of course. But you should get out more if you think it’s some unbelievable hellhole. Lots of places have similar issues and none of the positives.
“Lots of places have similar issues and none of the positives.”
well said. its got some bad to it
but overall its a pretty chill
city.
Great comment.
Well I do travel a lot. I was born and raised in Humboldt and remember it from the 70’s. In short you don’t realize how bad it is until you travel other places OUTSIDE California. The whole state has gone down hill with Humboldt being near the bottom. Putting your head in the sand and denying the truth is what got this place it is today. You have to recognize the problem before you can correct it.
You know what’s funny about that?
I also remember Eureka from the 70s. Wound up accidentally in Oregon in the late 70s, never meant to stay, and then I was suddenly on my way to Kodiak, AK. There were some friends, mostly men, who tried to dissuade me, warning me how rough and dangerous Kodiak was.
Got there, and soon after, commenting on how scary and rough Kodiak was NOT, I said to one, and this is an exact quote, “Shit, you’ve never been to Eureka!”.
dude or dudette, ya gotta come out from under that rock
You do not have to even think twice about how special humboldt really is this didn’t even cover the surfice of what eureka has to offer any type person from homeless to the hungry the artistic agricultural. And by all rights if all you want to focus on is drugs and tweeker then it takes one to be so focused on being the negitive Nancy of all drug addicts I’m just gonna say it I RESENT that because speaking from that walk of life at some point I am and always have been judged by such ignorant judgments the struggle is real here but trust and believe there are those of us here that respect what this strange and beautiful humboldt has done for us and do give back so please please don’t be that guy and wonder if some dumb tweeker will ever have potential because the answer is gonna baffle you.
You should visit Schenectady NY or Troy NY if you think Eureka is bad 🤣 two of the worst cities I’ve ever been to and none of the actual beauty or positive things that eka has. I’ll take Homeboldt over any other shitty city.
Exactly my toughts. Dude gotta be hitting the meth if she thinks Eureka’s it.
What A dump. Filled with little kid gangsters, Unscrupulous dealers, russian mafia, nasty hoes and every other slimebag you can even think of. Not to mention the stank of the pulp mill, the constant rain and fog, high rents and mediocre restaurants.
Pulp mill?
I visited Eureeka. Nice people and has different stores and shops. I don’t drink.smoke pot or do drugs so keep your Nasty comments to yourself
Is the Samoa cook house open? That’s my favorite.
Must have pretty low standards. Drive down Second or Third streets at noon time. Oh wait you can’t, it is blocked off for homeless.
You need to travel more
Just not down those streets at that time.
I’m with you mr bear. I love to complain about eureka as much as anyone but I do love it.
I keep my guests away from Eureka. Too embarrassing. If we have to go thru it, I take the back roads. Sad, because when I grew up here, it was great, except for the west part which has always been shoddy, but at least not infested with transients.
Eureka remains the long swollen, enflamed, and pus-filled boyle on the buttocks of California. Ms. Elk is into it. Good for her.
Well, what a silly item!
Weed, food and drinks? That’s the best the writer can do…
Millennials and their Online Magazines…
Bad writing, poorly constructed articles, downright stupid stories aside: Eureka?
I come to bury Eureka, not to praise it! Verbally assassinating Eureka is a waste of time, on this blog!
Go ahead and love it! From the sparkling Mayor to the beautiful mall, Eureka has little to praise, experientially!
I came, I saw, I threw up! Yuck, Eureka…
Can’t wait to never go there again, and, I hope to soon forget all the times I drove right through without stopping at anything at all, besides Happy Donut and WInco!
Eureka, it has a Target. That’s more than some towns!
Expensive shopping, too many bums, scary sidewalks, ugly weather, crazy drivers and a general yucky feeling, just being there!
Promoting this town as a method of promoting the county sounds like a product of a mind that has been exposed to too much drink, and too much weed, all before dinner…
Meh. Eureka has always been a town that reminded me of an aging and frayed Victorian lady brought low. Sometimes she tries on a new dress and tries to make herself presentable, but she’s still the same tired old lady that might never have seen actual better days.
And that’s my perceptions from decades ago.
But I always loved her for that all the same and still do.
Angela Robinson,
Thank you. That is a very sensible comment. A fine example.
And an excellent analogy.
Honest, polite and respectful.
It’s refreshing.
Stated more accurately and without the deferential language: Eureka is and always has been: an ugly old hag.
Truth tends to sting.
Eureka will end up as one of the absolute, most desirable places in the whole US, as global warming keeps getting worse. I’ve long thought that Silicon Valley needs to adopt Eureka as a sister-city. It wld breathe new, intelligent young life into our North Coast, coupled with deep Humboldt roots. It cld be a winning combination, for all the right & good reasons.
Our City& County Planners don’t seem to be very visionary. Or FUN! Everyone knows that hippies were all about hard work & fun!!! Pre-Greenrush, things were much more fun& sweet. The way the county went about “legalizing” our cottage industry has changed the culture for the worse. I can only hope they wake up & smell the W..d before they completely ruin our uniqueness. The world has been thru so much trauma for the past 4 years, it’s time for cooperation of an altruistic nature, not competition & consumerism. It’s time to “clean up the act”, all over America . Do the right things for the right reasons. Yes, we can!
Better watch that language or all the “California Property Flippers” (that’s everyone in the state) will fix it so practically nobody who can’t afford 1-2 million $ for a small old home will be able to reside there…
On the plus side, I do like the areas where the Redwoods are near the homes, like Cutten and over by the Hospital (which is another subject of revilement) , and I used to go to Partrick’s pretty regular, before I had to lose weight…
If you live until you cross the border, you are lucky, and comparing the town to a “woman not doing too well” is quite a stretch… I suppose there are a lot of persons not doing well there, but on the whole, I would rather live in Hoopa than in Eureka!
You hit on one of the big issues. The local people in power would not allow anything in so as not to impeach upon their kingdom. At one time several companies wanted to build factories just north of Eureka but were not allowed to. It was a big deal when starbucks came to town.
Now all the mill logging and fishing jobs that used to pay enough to support your family are gone. Service industry jobs are all that are left thus many folks moved away for good jobs and the dope growers moved in. Many locals jumped in on the program as well.
The Carson Mansion is a beauty though. And don’t forget, there’s a Costco there too.
Quite accurate and more than a little laughter inducing writing. Bravo!
Eureka is akin to a zit. No reason to look long or closely at. Hence: “I came, I saw, I threw up! Yuck, Eureka…”
I’ve been to about 30 states and 10 countries. I chose to make Eureka home for the past 14 years.
Where else would you have me travel?
wonderful !
Look at all these people who apparently hate the place they choose to reside. Maybe join the exodus and go to Idaho or Texas or whatever boring Bible state suits you better.
They don’t reside here. They live in Philipsville and throw peanuts. Their only experience with Eureka is the DMV, Costco, and the courthouse.
I would have liked to live in Eureka when businesses were owned and operated by people you knew and not “formula” stores that are available everywhere. But this is not just an Eureka issue, but is happening throughout the country. Now, other than a town’s “Old Town” section, one has a hard time knowing in which town they are in when visiting it.
Eureka’s Old Town is very sweet.
The public Dahlia Garden next to the zoo is lovely. I like shopping in Eureka.
Any US city that has a temperate climate is struggling with an overwhelming homeless population.
Yes- the ugly, squalid homeless making all of our eyes hurt. So terrible to have to see them on the way home to your secure house. Well…I sometimes interact with them while walking my dog. I gotta say that all of my interactions have been decent. Decent people in a bad place. Some with mental issues they probably didn’t ask for. Then they kicked to the curbs where all the drugs are and guess what? The drugs might make em feel okay for the moment but the drugs tear them up…I don’t think the solution is to hope that the homeless “get their shit together”. Or complain endlessly about them. Either put them all in concentration camps you friggin nazis or maybe, just maybe try to help find a better path forward. Aside from the occasional crazy violent homeless person they are decent, struggling humans and like it or not they are your neighbors. All the weed millionaires around here and so little kickdown…
Farce: “…put them all in concentration camps you friggin nazis…”
So, your view is:
1. You offer up “concentration camps”. This is a viable solution to you.
2. You consider other readers “nazis”. This is your view of others who are not like you.
Hmmm.
The Nazis and their concentration camps were hosts to the extermination of about 21 million human beings like you, us, and other readers.
And you obviously think that referring to “concetration camps” as a solution and referring to other readers as “Nazis” is reasonable and appropriate.
Farce, we respectfully suggest that you reconsider your judgements.
And for your reference, we offer the following link to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
https://www.ushmm.org/
I love living in Eureka. Like anywhere else you just need to be in a good neighborhood. I see you guys complaining about homelessness. I’ve lived in nearly every city in NorCal at one point or another, both inland and coastal. The crime and poverty here is no different than any of those other cities. The fortunate thing though is nearly all of it here is just along a few areas near the 101. So you may see it passing through, but I live here and I’ve never seen a single homeless person or tweaker anywhere near my home.
The climate is mild. The soil stays moist and green year round usually. That is not something that is common for most of CA. The temperatures are usually 55F-70F. Coming from an area that snowed and then got extremely hot in summer, I strongly appreciate the mild climate. The benefits of living here are the mild climate and an abundance of nature areas. I love going to the Trinidad coast, and I love my daily redwood hikes. When I lived in the SFbay I had to pay to see nature like this and it was always crowded. Complain if you want, but to me the benefits far outweigh any cons. Most cities in my opinion are sketchy. To me a city is a place where you shop, work, and where homeless people are. That’s really the same in every city. To be honest it is pretty tame here compared to where I lived before. I lived near areas with legitimate gang violence and then if I wanted a hike in the woods, often that meant accidentally running into travel trailers where meth was being cooked by groups of people with no teeth. There was no place to really escape. And the heatwaves were hell on earth. So go ahead, complain. My analysis is that life is pretty easy here. At times there are vacation transients that pass through (VanLifers). They typically stick to the same areas. Luckily we do not get those as bad as places like Santa Cruz though. There is a reason people want to visit this area. Because there is a lot of beauty here. I’m not saying Eureka is perfection. I’m saying I love it here, and I am allowed to love it here. Explore the surroundings a bit more and maybe you’ll understand why. Peace people.