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                  0 1 Guerneville,* center of town.  Keep ahead across RR.
               5 4
               55  o.l End  of road; jog  left and immediately  right across  long
                    wooden bridge over Russian river.
                  0.3 Fork; bear left upgrade.  Avoid left-hand diagonal road 7.3
               5.8
                    and left-hand road 9.4.
                  6.9 Forestville, left-hand road at signs (center of town ahead 0.2
               12.7
                    miles).  Turn left.
               13.9  1.2 End of road; turn right.
                  0.6 Turn left across RR and take first right immediately beyond,
               14.5
                    keeping ahead along same.  Caution for dangerous RR cross-
                    ing 14.7.
               16.4  1.9 Fork; bear left. Thru 4-corners 18.0.  Avoid right-hand diag-
                    onal road at Woolsey Sta. 18.3.
                  4.1 Right-hand road, just before RR; turn right along same. Cross
               20 5
                    RRs 21.0-21.4.
               21.5  1.0 Fulton, 4-corners at signs (center of town to right 0.1 mile).
                    Straight thru.
               22.8  1.3 End of road at signs turn right. Thru irregular 4-corners 25.9.
                               ;
                        Left at this turn 22.8 is Route 90, at mileage 59.3, to Uklah.
                        Sharp  left at  23.2  is Route  102, at mileage  4.1,  to Callstoga  via
                        Petrified Forest.
                    Cross RR 26.5—now on Healdsburg Ave.
                        Santa Rosa City Map and Points of  Interest, page 139.
               27.0  4.2 5-corners  ; bear left onto Mendocino Ave.
               27.4  0.4 SANTA ROSA, Mendocino Ave. & 4th St. at court house.
                     HOTELS—Occidental Hotel & Occidental Annex, 4th & B  Sts.,  1 Blk.
                        west of court house.          _.
                                            „
                     GARAGES—Crown Machine Works Garage, cor. Ross & „ „ Mendocino Sts.
                     FREE CAMPING GROUND— Petrified  Forest  of  Calif.,  12 miles from
                        Santa Rosa.
                  Route 236—Monte Rio to Sonoma, Cal.—49.7 m.
                              Reverse Route 148.
                Via Valley Ford, Bloomfield and Petaluma.  Dirt to Camp Meeker; 26.3 miles gravel
               and  dirt; balance oiled  dirt with a short stretch  of paving.  Summary:  5.3 miles
               ^-MILEAGE-^  dirt;  26.3 miles gravel and  dirt;  4.9 miles paving;  13.2 miles  oiled
                  Distance  <jirt
               Tota'i Between  The greater part of this route traverses a rolling, farming country.
               Mileage Points                         .
               0.0  0.0 MONTE RIO, P. O. on right. Go northeast across RR, avoid-
                    ing left-hand road immediately beyond.
               0.1  0.1 Fork, sign on right; bear right.
                        Left fork leads to Bohemian Grove.
               10.7
                    Cross RRs 0.2-2.4.  Continue on narrow winding road along
                    creek and RR.
                5.1  5.0 Fork; bear right with travel.
                5.3  0.2 Camp Meeker, end of road at store.  Bear left.
                  1.4 Left-hand road; turn left under RR, taking first right imme-
                6.7
                    diately beyond.
                6.9  0.2 Occidental, sta. on right.  Keep ahead along RR.
                7.0  0.1 Fork at RR  ; bear left downgrade.
                7.3  0.3 End of road bear left with travel across small wooden bridge.
                           ;
                     Jog left and right across RR, passing Freestone Sta. on left.
                  3.4 Right-hand road, wooden church on right; turn right.
                        Straight ahead leads to Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
                     Cross RR 11.9.
               12.1  1.4 Left-hand road, sign on right; turn  left past farm house.
                     Cross RR at Bodega Road Sta. 12.4 and recross same 14.2.
               15.1  3.0 Valley Ford, end of road.  Turn left across RR, passing bank
                ‘Guerneville,  Cal.  (pop.  650,  alt.  50  ft.),  is  apart for masques and woodland rites  is the
               situated on the Russian river, 20 miles west  heroic figure of an Indian by Robert Aitkin,
               of Santa  Rosa.  The Russian  river  is  the  one  of  California’s  best  sculptors  and  the
               "Slavianka” of the early settlers.  Guerneville  creator of the McKinley memorial in Golden
               possesses  the majestic beauty  of redwoods.  Gate park.  In the summer the whole region
               The Bohemian club occupies a grove near by  round  Guerneville  is  thickly  populated  by
               for their summer camp, and in the space set  holiday tenants.
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