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Mountain Marketplace, a natural-foods store on Weaverville’s Main Street

Unless they’re coming from the coast, most Trinity Alps hikers won’t reach Willow Creek, a small town of less than 2,000 people at the junction of CA 299 and CA 96. The town does have gas stations, motels, and restaurants, and Six Rivers National Forest has a district office on CA 96, a quarter mile north of the CA 299 junction (530-629-2118).

TOWNS ALONG CA 3: WEAVERVILLE TO YREKA

Trinity Center is the only town on the shoreline of Trinity Lake, 30 miles north of Weaverville. Ending up at Wyntoon Resort instead is fairly easy if you miss the turnoff to Trinity Center, which is immediately south of the Swift Creek bridge. The present site of the town is not at all the original Trinity Centre of gold rush days, which lies beneath the waters of Trinity Lake. One of the structures moved from the original site to its current location before the lake was filled is the Odd Fellows Hall, at the corner of Scott Road and Mary Avenue. Trinity Center has the only airstrip close to the eastern Alps, along with the Trinity Center General Store (55 Scott Road; 530-266-3393), a grocery store with gas pumps. Lodging is limited to houseboat and cabins rentals. The seasonally open Scott Museum (100 Airport Road; 530-266-3378) displays an interesting collection of pioneer memorabilia. Usually open mid-May–mid-September, the Mini-Kat, just north of Trinity Center on CA 3 at the KOA Campground (530-266-3582), serves burgers and typical snack-shop fare sure to be deemed tasty after a long hike or backpack in the wilderness.