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!
Arcata chat room hello im a hippie ,I lived ina tree with Julia butterfly, was a true women ,for humboldt fresh water , dont for get her. eny ever know she made the Luna candy bar no joke ,Julia Butter fly was a tree sitter in humboldt county ca. Julia butter thot for what she belived in so Fight for what patrick said in the article down below
I live in Humboldt county awomse hippie articles I was reading
PTARICK is rite
she names the tree LUNA ,Luna got CUTT DOWN for lumber
All my dear Hippys,
Do some thing good for the Earth PLant a tree,Rite helpfull positve gerfeety on the wall like perhaps ,in a bathroom take a marker and rite postive things on the wall like maybee rite ((( If u cant say some thing nice then done say eny thing at )))) or another thing u can rite is ((( Help a person))) or (((( rite a poem on the wall))) ok ,Stars Burger resraunt in Arcata has it in the bathroom on the walls and its all positive note ,plant a tree do postive this
Bye hippys
((( Hippys earthy type people ))) Love marks and No nagative talk.paint
Palco’s swimming pool is for members only, very stricked rules if they let u swim, swimming is alowed but very very stricked rules, Swimming Laps 1 hour and u have to leave, Swimming Hour isent Alowed for non members, Palco dosent care, a spit pool of fucking blood. That pool should be taken care of because the stooped greedy town , and there fucking lumber, Save the forest Birds come first. U are not alllowed to be at there recreation swimming and weight lifting center, Im sad, palco makes me cry. because they dont share the pool. after averthing they put us throught, I want to swim there , But non members are not allowed inless u swimm laps, But weight room is off limits if your not a memeber,
Save the Forest ,I wanna save the woods ,so the birds can sing and the deers have a place too live, its getting better, palco and simpson is almost gon. Did you know the Local Co-op markets only give Paper bags my know why they only give Paper bags is because ,Plastic bags are made from Potrolius Products and you cant recycle,pulp is ganna be made eny ways so its better eny ways,,,,,, but Palco and simpson are greedy rich and Palco is been going down in Scotia , Scotia is a very pritty town tho, They got a kool super market called (((( Hobys Market))
Its a very beautifull market and you can buy every thing there its in a cute little plaza, they built ,They had a old hobys matket and it burnt down in the 1992 Erth quake ,they Rebuilt the new plaza called hobys , and its got a bunch of other stores, last summer I was sleeping and they started cutting the Rio dell clifs and I did get upsets, because outta all the place they cut its gotta be the cliffs in Rio dell blufs , there cutting them and flying over with a chopper, they stoped it this year, this are kool, Palco has slowed down a lot, but they are still cutting fast some places , The state gives the oks and I think this year they got turned down so there cutting is on hold ,I havent seen eny cutting latly,
i’m on a travelling journey from newfoundland, canada. I hitched a ride with a friend from ontario and we drove to LA. I’m heading up to northern cali next week. I’ve have no idea how long i’ll be here….any suggestions of places to go?? I’m looking to chill with amazing beautiful people and to be apart of nature. I’m also looking for some side work….farming??…i wanna stay in cali as long as i can.
peace
Rio dell and fortuna need longer bus hours badly,heres the times deparing from Rio dell going as far as Trinadad ca. Humboldt county wide.
Im in need of the longer bus, Im going to Humboldt state university and I live in Rio dell ,scotia, few minutes from fortuna,
Rio dell city hall HTA bus (north times)& south times)
6:33 AM
7:27 AM
8:33 AM
10:33 AM
2:33 PM
4:36 PM
6:51 PM
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SOUTHBOUND DEPARTURE TIMES
8:05 AM
10:12 AM
1:55 PM
4:13 PM
6:28 PM
7:31PM
Bus ends early for all the south and I cant spend eny time in Eureka ,becacsue I have to catch my last bus home 6:32 and man its horible , Rio dell and scotia need late bus for the collage students and it bad for the late time, Well guys I think Trinadad need longer bus too but its ganna take some asking to get it rolling
Arcata is a great place to live or visit. A quite large portion of the people here can read and write and spell. Please don’t draw any hasty conclusions based on the things that are posted here.
totally agreed.
When I stayed there I was surprised by the amount of utter disregard for the fact that I had heard about the place from the internet.
map not equal to territory and all I guess.
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I grew up in Rio Dell. i lived there for the first 18 of my 27 year old life. i now live in Oklahoma. im celerating April 20th. i think UpinHeeuh did an excelt job describing Arcada and its Co-Existers.
does anyone from Arcata know how to spell, this is absolutely fucking embarrassing. No wonder we get a bad name, because we obviously don’t educate ourselves in simple human communication. Save your river and trees and birds and smoke all that Humboltd Bud, but for God sake learn to write and spell so you can teach your children so they have a half a chance.
hippies in arcata are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yo, chris..it might help if you knew how to write and spell..I think HSU is in arcata, you might get the help there. Not to sound like an ass, but you make no sense at all. Saving the forest is a great idea, but so is an education. How do you think you can save the forest if you cant even write a sentence using correct spelling and grammer. Peace
Dr. Gabe Pike
I just wanted to add my 2 cents to the discussion of Arcata.
I just moved from Arcata to New York after 6 years of living in Humboldt. I left because I grew up and wanted to make something of my life rather than scrapping the bottom of the barrel, eeking my way through life, trying to make a fortune growing pot. I agree the surrounding areas of the general Arcata area are beautiful, and I love living among the redwoods. The bad thing about Humboldt is the economy, that and the fact that all the southerners are moving up there and bringing all their cold hard cash to buy up the real estate, making the current selling prices astronomical….Even if you have a professional/healthcare background with experience, the salaries are very low, and rental prices are growing higher and higher every year.
Being a lifelong Californian, I know that Eureka has always been a travel through city, which means ALOT of riff-raff floats in throughout the summer time….it tapers off when the rain starts in strong, but anyone whose lived in Arcata, Eureka and the outlying areas know Humboldt has a huge homeless issue. Did I mention drugs…yeah hard ones. I thought it was just about the pot…I thought it would be really mellow, and earth loving hippies, and it’s not that people aren’t that way, but I’ve met so many drug addicts, crack, speed, heroin, young people, old people, alcoholics….it’s all there, in abundance. I worked at the co-op and the amount of theft by these peace loving hippies, is absolutely appalling. The Co-op though, is the best and biggest of all the co-op’s I’ve visited even if it is run by schmucks. The Co-op in Bellingham, Wa. takes a very close second as it is cleaner, and there organic produce department is gorgeous and always looks so taking care of and loved.
I love Humboldt though, don’t get me wrong. Mostly because of the beaches, and the forests, the headwaters, and of course the Trinities Alps just a couple hours away. This is the supreme backbacking spot in California, and I miss it enough to come back home for one more summer…and I wish seeing all the VW’s….they’re missing on the East Coast and it makes me sad :O(
thursday aug. 17th 2006
I have noticed a lot of people around Humboldt havent been so happy at all this beautifull sunny summer, I wonder if the humboldt county people like the sun, I mean u have to know it almost always foggy but for some reason all of the 2006 summer its been sunny and very worm and its not normal weather for the area, every where people are very down this summer, I think people would breather have the fog back due to such a worm summer and I agree, its been hard being around unhappy people, I have been unhappy and for some reason am so sick and tired of life ,I guess I need to slow down, I know u viewers out there ,I cant speek for some one else, and I will understand , putting my self into a state of trance is just too hard for me, I should medatate ,sarry if I miss spell, I cant wait till normal soft sweet fog comes back, Finding my self some happyness, shopping wont make eny body happy, tho I do like to shop to make my self happy ,but lately I havent injoyed shopping because I dont have Friends , making freind can be very hard, Eny body here know.
Greetings w/ LOVE, Peace & Rasspect . Here/ NOW in good ol’ Ourcata. I mon 1st. came to arcata on aug. 13, 1975. A hippie hippie hippie ona a trippy trippy trippy. Want to know the real deal ? Then listen up cuz i mon am about to hip ya& iffin I mon can’t hip ya ,den I mon knows a cat who knows a cat who WILL hip ya. (DIG?) ALL the comments /opinions expressed here (…on yhis “information highway “)(-so called .)are peoples personal perspectives…. SOME ARE more or less ,accurate to what it is, what it was, & what it will be when they get here/back here.AS the saying goes, dem dat know dont say &them that say dont KNOW.I mon gots ta catch some zzzzz’s. SO all is well . I mon will gret to the point next time (hopefully) either way hang in dare, DOnt’t give up the fight -never give up the fight ( like Brother Bob sang to us ,so sweetly.) peace out Bro. T. of A. p.s. soon come!
I plan on moving to Arcata … lm not a hippie, not a punker, not a dead head or anything like that ( dont like to put lables on myself). wanting to know where l could get a job. Bouncing, Construction, Line Cook, anything to get paid would be great… also any under the table job (legal please) would be good. Thank you for you time.
I can be reached at CoreyE814@peoplepc.com…. thanks agian
This is my first time to hippy.com, and thought I’d have a look at one of the best spots in the world for *me* – Arcata.
While I am a 40 something, a green party member, social worker, had a ponytail half my life, smoke 1-2 times a year, and am married to a wonderful artist, I can only conclude from all these posts that hippies are mostly a very angry, hateful, drugged up group. Huh?
All humans have their weak and unproud moments, but there is a river of hate in these posts that I have not experienced on a regular basis in the greater Arcata area. My experience has been just the opposite: Genuine, caring, interesting people working to get along, grow spritually, and have a nice relaxed time.
I don’t know if I ever considered myself a hippie, but do tend to be in line with some of the (stereotypical) ideals of hippies – not largely presented in these angry Arcata posts.
Most of what is posted here has bits of truth to it, at least one day or another. I swear I felt more hate scrolling through these posts than I did in the 2 years my wife and I lived in Arcata. These posts are almost a hate capsule of everything that went wrong in an otherwise very open, warm, progressive community.
I choose Arcata because:
Arcata works for us because as a community and environment it allows us to be who we are and supports us moving towards our potential. Many, though not all, communities can do this for most people. It’s up to each of us to find a place/space that feels right and nurtures us towards being our optimum selves. I’m not talking about the place with the best buds or parties. Just the opposite (for me) really. Arcata may or may not be “heaven” for you. Like many decent communities, it depends how *you* choose to participate/contribute in them, if you choose to be open to what they offer.
Arcata turned out to be mecca for us, so we’re getting ready to return, whether we can afford the cost of living or not. We all can, and must, make our personal mecca’s happen. Find a place that brings that out for you, and if/when you do, don’t be a rush to leave.
Happy Journeys – We’ll all get there 🙂
ps and don’t let a few green meanies scare you off!
I support victory in Iraq on the side of American troops. How accepting and loving are you now? I am coming up to visit my daughter who is a loving beautiful independent minded individual.
Ma, I just read the whole thing. I don’t really like yuppies and noticed them right off here in SLO; have had to live here for 5 years. SLO is going down the tubes fast, and I live right across from where they’re building many new box stores. Development like crazy, but still not very many good jobs here, either. (People are going to have to create more Hippie meccas.) Raised by working-class hippies in southern Cali; probably wouldn’t mind being around tweakers. Tweakers are a huge phenomenon, everywhere. 20 years ago, my sister, brother and all best friends were on speed in San pedro. Luckily, where I’m from, the “recovery” movement is a kind of transition that a lot people go through. It does sound like there are some serious problems in your neck of the woods, but if you are a young person, they may not phase you as much. I always tell everyone that the people are way nicer in Northern CA, It’s kind of cool that way.just traveling up North a little (to Big Sur and Santa Cruz) the people make an attempt to be accepting and tolerant in a way that you don’t find down south. prob because of the way I look, naw, I don’t know, I look like a hippie but was a punk in early 80’s then moved to a commune in VA. Am used to being around many kinds of people, feel comfortable around working-class; but still don’t really fit in. Aargh, have really given up on ever finding a place, and have a boot in down on the docks in Pedro, where half the force are women. I will live in Pedro and make some money, settle in Redwoods later. I hope it’s still there.
My Son Clay Dumas Frequented the Endeavor and Humbolt county with his girlfriend Caron and son Cole and two dogs Molly and Backer. My son had to give his dogs away prior to leaving Arcata. To someone named Andrew from Colorado. My son was killed tragically July 22,06 in Sacramento,Ca just prior to getting on the bus. If you Know Clay or Know Andrew who might Have Molly and Backer we would like to hear fom you@ claysmyangel@yahoo.com. Thanks God bless Amy
I will be posting this in the Endeavor as well.
Im Glad to find this web site Ithink it will be fun
Humboldt county Polotics are stooped, it takes them a long time to pass a law, the humboldt county polotics make silly funny laws, Like trying to make Eureka like south Arcata SILLY, the bolloon tracks oposition is really not that big of Eureka can not become like south arcata and strickt building codes, To get rid of the Lumber mills like santa cruz did is to bring more shopping centers, thats the only other way to bring other jobs to our area, I suport getting rid of all our lumber mill Like santa cruz did, remeber Santa cruz had the same thing, Humboldt is run by clowns, people r more Unhappy, big fat silly polotics an most of them are fat by the way and maybee gay eating there sub sandwich at lunch from subway
The love of my life,Clay Dumas,always came back to Humbolt.Unfotunatly we got stuck without our car and had to give the two of our best friends away,Molly andBacker, our dogs. i raised them both and i am looking for them.Clay Passed away July 2006 and i am back home in Illinois and i really want to know if anyone knows where my dogs are. they were a big part of our live and anyone who knew us knew that. we were always out there for the past 6 years off and on. we were well known.I have friends out there i still talk to but know one has seen my dogs. the people i gave them to were living in a tent in the red wood park. his name was Andrew and i dont remember her name. she was from Fortuna. if anyone who is reading this knows anything about Molly and Backer please e-mail me.shawcaron@yahoo.com.They are one of the only things i have left of Clay and i would do anything to get them back. i will be making a trip out there by next summer please contact me if you know anything. please ask around.i will be there instantly if anyone can find them. thank you. caron
i just put in a comment about my dogs and i put one e-mail address on there. i wanted to post another one at caron@hipplanet.com. please inform me of any iformation if anyone knows any information about my dogs and i will get into contact with you. please andrew or anyone that knows me please e-mail me.
well im so excited that i just read that. im planning on going up to arcata in feb to check out hsu and even if im not going to go to college up there thats were i want to move its just amazing. ive never got to go there but my sister lives in Eureka so she sent me so many amazing pic. i cant wait for my trip in febuary. i live in this shit hole town in utah. i love to smoke and that article was pretty cool.
alex