Arcata, California

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This is the best place to go if you’re a hippie.. well, besides the Haight-Ashbury. It’s located in Humboldt County, which is pretty well-known for it’s marijuana growing. The community is great, there are always festivals going on about the earth, such as the Mushroom Fair, the Hemp Festival, North Country Fair, everything you can imagine. I love it here! The people are so supportive of you.. they’ve even made a law which states that women can indeed go topless around the plaza in the centre of town. ; )

Arcata is a totally unreal place to check out and LIVE too! The rents are cheap and it seems everyone is way laid back, with Humboldt next door and being amongst the greatest redwoods in the world, how can you go wrong!

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  1. Man, Most of you are dreamers, and HUMBOLDT COUNTY does NOT WANT YOU HERE!!! BLah BLah , rich young wanna-be nomads, with daddys checkbook……JOBS? we gotta em and there for us only assholes…Arcata, might be the only place left in Humboldt County that has NO LOVE from The True Humboldt people, because it is filled mostley with outsiders, who THINK they know whats up with Humboldt County, truth is, all of you come up here and try and change the attitude and lifestyle of our county and we move further out to the hills were we know you wimps cant make it. DROP YOUR VISIONS OF EUTOPIA AND LEAVE.

  2. wow there are a bunch of hateful people on this site! one question? why did you guys even search this site out if you are appose to the idea of hippies in humboldt which is the feeling you gave off in your wordy comment. If you disagree wioth everyone else then say it nicely don’t put others down to lift yourself up because YOU are the unhappy ones. I’m sorry you feel this way and i hope some day you find happiness.

  3. herb tofu yo, i got dreads last week and im gonna move to arcata mannnnnnnyeah, got any change or nugs bro? like being followed around by people that smell like shit? like, my star sign told my rising sign to do yoga and eat various sprouts and do drugs that will make my offspring retarded.
    my favorite part is that i get to drive around an suv daddy bought me, i was worried about pollution so i put some enviromental bumber stickers on it.
    jah love and rastafari for the upper middle class white kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Arcata sounds like a dream to me….I have been deciding where I want to live and go to college. Arcata is going to be the first place I go!~!I live in Quincy,Il…. This town really sucks… Its all drama queens and haterz!~ I am juss tryin to spread the peace luv and happiness!*~I cant wait to go there! I luv smokin weed. It is the best thing that happened to tha world… If everyone could just get a bong!~lol!~I bet they have some killer ass bud there..Cant wait to come…
    Arcata California watch out!*~ Cuz Diamond Jade is coming to spread tha peace n love!!***~
    *peace*
    *luv*
    *happiness*

  6. hey does anyone know any south jetty hippies from back in the days one could squat out there? i got kicked off with everyone else in 97 and havent seen noone since what happened to them kids? furd, honeybear, tony and amber, papa smurf, shane, bridge or heiko
    charliebeachandco@yahoo.com
    Ive been alive and well in seattle

  7. Driving from Wisconsin to Arcata California twice within the last seven months has been an experience like no other. This place is truely wonderful, and for those of you who pick the worst out of it are bogus. Everywhere has its gloomy portions but Arcata’s gloom is overided by the atmosphere of the village. The summer is filled with commotion and festivals while the winter is calm and full of satisfaction. The temperature is always comforting and the herb like no other. The plaza is spectacular i’ve tripped about many nights and soaked up everything i found there.
    For Mr purple, your right, stupid and without understanding of the place are the young people who travel to this place, with daddy’s full pocket book and wild dreams of pot which they barely understand. All adolecense who plan on going to Arcata, respect and understanding of this place is appreciated by the older members of the community, so dont go there if your dumb and young and do not understand how it works.
    Leave this place special and dont corrupt it until you fully respect it for what it Really is.
    At night sleep on the sand at Clam Beach just a few miles north on 101
    Check out Humboldt glassblowers its a good place for discs or pipes
    Don’s Donuts is unbelievable but watch out for the drag queen
    Check out the Co-op it has everything, even if you need a quick snack they’ve got a good granola and trail mix selection
    LIke to shout out to BOB^2, Josh, Steve-O, Gretchen, Little Jordan, if you know any of these people tell them i said hello

  8. HEy peoples….
    Yeah I can agree with alot on here about the street urchens is what I would like to refer them to as well as DUPPIES!!!I lived in Arcata for 7 years where I alowed the land to heal me from the inside out. I am still involved with the community there(MATEEL) and with birth activisim, however, when I gave birth to my first child I decided that the rift/raft was too intense for me, cheesy street people persistant, and to me scary as a mom. So I moved home to ORegon where Original HIP people reside, and the land is UNTOUCHED in some parts. I love it. With my second child on the way I was able to find a LAY midwife and start my beautiful family, and I am able to walk with my children without harassment. Also My husband was able to find a awesome job up here. CALIFORNIA is overated, property is too expensive, and it’s unfortunate for me to hear that parents are worried about their kids out there. REST ASSURE YOURSELF they won’t go hungry @ that food bank! which is keeping all of the street kids fed well. Peace out to all my SPIRITUAL MENTORS. Peaceful states of minds to all seekers. Much LOVE and RESPECT>>>>email>>>natbirthing@charter.net

  12. Greetings all! So many mixed messages on this board you’ve almost got me ignoring my gut. But you know, I’m already more than a thousand miles away from home, why stop now? I’m coming to Arcata. Being from a town of few people and many trees up in Maine I’ve been blown away by the cities I’ve seen so far on my way here. Right now I’m in Salt Lake City. What a long strange trip it’s proving to be. I just cant wait to be on the beach in California, notebook in hand, feet in the sand, just soaking up sun and love. What’s with all the hippie and yuppie distinctions? I’ve been taught from a young age that noone needs to be labeled, but if you want to label whatever it is as being a hippie, i dont believe it has anything to do with how they dress or how much money is in their pocket, being a hippie is in thought and action. Anyway, if anyone from the area has any POSITIVE tips for me and my northwest tour (out of a backpack, not daddy’s SUV, shit dad doesnt even have a car) please post them here, or even better, email me at brokentarot@netscape.net
    thanks, much love.
    Reverse the first four letters and EVOLVE.

    – Joe Grey

  13. Well, during the summer month, bit dry and empty. Yea, you can still go to the Food Endevor, Co-op, or H and I street around. Oh if you look neat, you can sleep at HSU library or city forest behind HSU football field, and you can take shower at Forbs complex. Hey, what’s happened the “Pete”. Yea the Pete, does anyone know his whereabout?
    When I talked him at Endevor several years ago, He was just back from county Jail and was not look so well.
    Anyway, Arcata is very diverse and want to go back and live again. Actually, I still have a family court case in Humbolt county. That what reason even I live in Bay Area, I still have a address in Eureka.

    Ha

    https://www.arcataeye.com/
    https://www.northcoastjournal.com/

  14. One mo thing. While ago, the house called the “hell house” 10th at I street. You folks remember? Dark, Sammy(mommy the sammy), and the guy from New Orlends used to live there. Yea, there were Punk people played Hippy folks with the Pete and his friends. I think Sammy’s daughter turned 8 years now?

    Ha,

  15. my boyfriend and i have been thinking about moving out to arcata. we just had a baby going on 4 months, i’d heard that it’s beatiful out there and the town was real friendly. but from what i’ve read it seems like people have been kinda down on the place. but i can understand where they come from not wanting young big headed posers coming there. if you think it would be a good place to start a little family you should let me know. i really had my heart set on it. much love
    peace
    * wookie *

  16. Yeah the chronic is good. It all ends there. I moved down from bellingham wash. and was severly dissapointed. The town looks like crap and the majority of the younger crowd is about the herb and not the possiblilties that come with its use. Dont plan on just moving here on a whim either. The landlord are jerks who have no problem finding tenants so they dont really need you(and they will tell you the same). The redwoods are magnificant and so is the ocean. If your moving down here dont move to town. Move to blue lake or even eureka. Live for the moment and good luck on finding that special place.

  18. I’m riding twords norcal u.p. style. travleing alone w/ dog headed for Arcata. need hook up when I get there. pleases some body email me some helpfull suggestions. C.C.R.

  19. Okay I am totally laugh my butt off! You people are totally too far gone on pot to understand reality. Arcata is NOT nirvana–don’t know where that stupid rumor came from. You are best to stay where you are or move to tahiti if you want to lounge on your stupid ass and do nothing! Vegans are everywhere — what do you think we all hold hands in the plaza and sing kumaya? Don’t be ridiculous! sounds like most of you are dead heads who don’t realize Jerry Garcia died!

    Arcatans aren’t stupid and hanging out in the woods with lice ain’t gonna win you friends… The reality is that if you slept on the beach you would be cold as hell! Get a grip! This isn’t malibu.

    Geesh you people are lame or just plain naiive. Why don’t you just admit you are looking for a free ride off your parents bucks. And you call that independent? You call that being *free*

    Get a grip and stop being a slave to drugs and a slave to *pipe dreams* you ain’t hip—you just trip–and what you trip on is a bunch of crap that leads to a dead end of unemployment.

    You want to save the world? Hug a tree? Make a difference? Start by trying to better it—not by being a dead beat but by making a contribution. Don’t make others haul your dead weight around!

    You people are freak’in sad—-Hippie never was suposed to mean *freeloader*–what a bunch of lazy freaks!

    Move to Arcata and you will have a rude awakening as you are rousted off to jail–But then, maybe there you could make pretty chalk drawings—oh yeah they give you chalk in jail…
    If you people are the future…we got a lot more to clean up then the environment!

  20. I SAW A SIGHT THIS MORNING IN EUREKA, JUST SOUTH OF ARCATA, THAT EXEMPLIFIES PRESICELY WHY THE PEOPLE OF THIS AREA HATE HIPPIES. I WAS SITTING BY THE BAY AT F STREET HAVING COFFEE WITH A FRIEND WHEN A HIPPIE BITCH WALKED UP TO THE WATER FOUNTAIN AND STARTED WASHING OUT HER SNATCH IN FRONT OF THE APPALLED TOURISTS, AND SOME OLD LADIES WHO WERE WALKING NEARBY. SOME OF US YELLED AT HER BUT SHE WAS SO HIGH ON WHATEVER SHE’D BEEN SMOKING TO GIVE A DAMN. IF YOU OR ANY OF YOUR OTHER SHITBAG FRIENDS DECIDE TO GO TO ARCATA, GO, BUT DON’T LET THE SUN SET ON YOUR HIPPIE ASSES IN THIS TOWN! WE ARE FED UP WITH OUR STREETS BEING BLIGHTED BY YOUR KIND.

  21. hey does anyone know any south jetty hippies from back in the days one could squat out there? i got kicked off with everyone else in 97 and havent seen noone since what happened to them kids? furd, honeybear, tony and amber, papa smurf, shane, bridge or heiko
    charliebeachandco@yahoo.com
    Ive been alive and well in seattle

    ******************************************************
    Most of those dirtbags moved to the King Salmon/Humboldt Hill area, well, at least the few that haven’t died of Hep or OD’d on heroin or crank. Sorry to hear one got away. But that’s OK, won’t last much longer. If the drugs don’t get you Karma will.

  22. well, I have some good advice and some bad advice for the people looking to live in Arcata.
    Good advice: If you are looking to raise your kids in an enviornment of redwoods, the beautiful ocean and beaches, Organic grown foods/products, Nice small town type of feeling, then have at it.
    Bad advice: This is also a college town/hippie town/old family town, kind of place. Its nice to come and visit for a while, but if you can’t handle THAT, hitch hikers, people looking to make an extra buck, and a party on every street corner evrey friday, saturday, then maybe you should think twice. There is no Starbucks in town, theres family owned and operated stores since arcata started. Now take this advice very seriously. Me personaly, It’s not that bad.

  23. hey hippies,
    whatever you do, never move to alaska, mannnn i came up here and its lame!
    stay in “cali”, the mountains here are shwag bro. the hippie van (suv) wheels froze to the ground, and the reefer smells like monkey shit.

  24. Aracta, Ca. …. The place for dank… So many different strains… So little time. I”ll tell you what, after being in B.C. roaming in Washington and in Oregon, first stop in Humbolt was a palace. Besides all of those fuckers
    “the younger crowd” trying to steal your living equipment in the community forest behind HSU it wasn’t so bad. You meet alot of heads,
    smoke on some dynamic local pot, and have a fun time. The festivals are fun in the summer. If you want to stay on the beach, stay at Clam Beach. Food not Bombs is cool if they come. Stop at the food endv.

    Dont pond That pres in the square Knox Caridi Pibb Thijis

  25. Hello:

    I live in Arcata. I am interested in some of the comments by people about the ‘real Humboldt’ attitude and/or lifestyle. Can anyone add to that? I find Arcata to be a great place to live, but I woulder if there is more? Thanks in advance for any input.

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