Our Mission The mission of California State Parks is Sinkyone to provide for the health, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping One hundred years ago, Wilderness to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity, protecting its most valued natural and Sinkyone Wilderness State cultural resources, and creating opportunities State Park for high-quality outdoor recreation. Park was an industrial landscape, logged for its natural resources. Today, California State Parks supports equal access. efforts are underway to Prior to arrival, visitors with disabilities who need assistance should contact the park at restore its wild beauty for (707) 986-7711. If you need this publication in an alternate format, contact
[email protected]. generations to come. CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS P.O. Box 942896 Sacramento, CA 94296-0001 For information call: (800) 777-0369 (916) 653-6995, outside the U.S. 711, TTY relay service www.parks.ca.gov SaveTheRedwoods.org/csp Sinkyone Wilderness State Park Briceland Thorn Road Whitethorn, CA 95589 (707) 986-7711 © 2011 California State Parks (Rev. 2016) S inkyone Wilderness State Park is PARK HISTORY self-identity, but all groups formed a part of a wild and beautiful stretch of Native People larger economy that delivered goods as shoreline known as “The Lost Coast.” This The Sinkyone people lived in the area far as the Eastern United States. rugged area, about 36 miles southwest of now known as Sinkyone Wilderness This area was probably more densely Garberville, is one of the few places on State Park for thousands of years populated by Sinkyones before California’s long coastline that cannot be before European contact.