All roads lead to Mendocino... and to MENDOCINO Preferred!
Being There & Getting Here...
...to MENDOCINO PREFERRED Vacation Home Rentals
For most of our rentals, you will need to pick up a key at the Sea Cottage Real Estate office in Mendocino (on Main Street). Directions to find the office can be found at Key Pickup.
For the rentals at Cypress Cove, The Hayloft and Greentree Cottage, click below:
ROAD CONDITIONS:
You may check road conditions in California
on this Caltrans website or call 800-427-7623
Just enter your route number
Just for the record, however, we are in northern California and we're on the coast. Simple? Yes, but since northern California may not be descriptive enough to some, we will try to narrow it down a bit:
Mendocino and Mendocino Preferred Vacation Rental Homes are:
about 225 to 250 miles from the Oregon border (5 hours?)
a few thousand miles east of Tokyo (figure a day or two.. or longer if you're windsurfing) and
a couple of inches east of the Pacific Ocean (how long does it take to inch forward?)
...and Mendocino Preferred Vacation Home rentals are within a stone's throw... or a few miles... of Mendocino.
Does that help? Just in case, we will throw in a few fancy directions to follow. Of course, we assume you will be driving...about the only way to get here from there... unless you fly in with your private plane, but more on that later. We have selected a few starting points which you may recognize; you can match or adjust your own starting point to those given here. Or... to find the distance from any point to the Mendocino Coast (or from anywhere to anywhere), take a look at a terrific website called "How Far Is It", developed by Darrell Kindred. Keep in mind that the distances are in miles AS THE CROW FLIES.
As Roy and Dale were fond of saying, "Happy Trails"!
Smart travelers check road conditions, especially in winter and stormy weather. It doesn't happen often, but roads are sometimes closed, detours are in effect and/or there are delays because of construction or repair. Those same smart travelers call the California Transportation Department
(CALTRANS)for current road conditions throughout the state.
Call 800-427-7623 for the Highway Information Network
punch in the highway route number(s) you'll be traveling, followed by the pound sign (#).
Destination: Mendocino
From San Francisco (150 miles):
Go North on Van Ness Ave. for 3 miles to US 101 (& across the Golden Gate Bridge)
Go Northwest on US 101 for 87 miles, through Santa Rosa to State Rte 128 (at Cloverdale)
Go Northwest on State Rte 128, through Boonville, for 52 miles to State Rte 1 (at the mouth of the Navarro River on the Mendocino Coast)
Go North on State Rte 1 for 9 miles...
...to Mendocino
From Sacramento (188 miles):
Go South on I-5 for 1 mile to I-80
Go Southwest on I-80 for 46 miles to State Rte 12 (near Cordelia)
Go West on State Rte 12 for 19 miles to State Rte 121 (Napa area)
Go Southwest on state Rte 121 for 1.5 miles to State Rte 116 (west of Napa)
Go West on State Rte 116 for 19 miles to US 101 (south of Petaluma)
Go Northwest on US 101 for 41 miles to State Rte 128 (at Cloverdale)
Go Northwest on State Rte 128, through Boonville, for 52 miles to State Rte 1 (at the mouth of the Navarro River on the Mendocino Coast)
Go North on State Rte 1 for 9 miles...
...to Mendocino
From South Lake Tahoe (286 miles):
Go West on US 50 for 97 miles to I-80 (Sacramento area)
Go Southwest on I-80 for 48 miles to State Rte 12 (near Cordelia)
Go West on State Rte 12 for 19 miles to State Rte 121 (Napa area)
Go Southwest on State Rte 121 for 1.5 miles to State Rte 116 (west of Napa)
Go West on State Rte 116 for 19 miles to US 101 (south of Petaluma)
Go Northwest on US 101 for 41 miles to State Rte 128 (at Cloverdale)
Go Northwest on State Rte 128, through Boonville, for 52 miles to State Rte 1 (at the mouth of the Navarro River on the Mendocino Coast)
Go North on State Rte 1 for 9 miles...
...to Mendocino
From Portland, Oregon (537 miles):
Go South on I-5 for 242 miles to State Rte 99
Go South on State Rte 99 for 4 miles to US 199
Go Southwest on US 199 for 43 miles (to the California Border)
Continue to go Southwest on US 199 for 36 miles to US 101 (north of Crescent City)
Go South on US 101 for 166 miles to State Rte 1 (at Leggett)
Go South on State Rte 1 for 45 miles...
...to Mendocino
From Newport, Oregon (on the coast) 440 miles):
Go South on US 101 for 213 miles (to the California border)
Continue to go South on US 101 for 182 miles to State Rte 1 (at Leggett)
Go South on State Rte 1 for 45 miles...
...to Mendocino
Now the hard part... from Mendocino to the several Mendocino Preferred Vacation Home Rentals. Click below for directions...
Sorry, there is no scheduled commercial air service to the Mendocino Coast, but there is on-demand charter service available at the Little River Airport and, of course, it is available to private planes. The airport, at Little River, is located about 5 miles from Mendocino and boasts a long runway, accessible for jets.
Coast Flyers (707-937-1224) is licensed by the FAA to operate out of Little River Airport. Weather permitting, their Cessna 172's can pick up passengers at any airport. Charter arrangements can be made at many other area airports with a variety of operators available, flying aircraft ranging from four-place, single-engine to jets that carry as many as 12 or more passengers.
DETAILS: (CHECK THE AIRPORT FOR CHANGES)
Elevation: 572 ft.
Runway 29 & 11 - Left traffic
Runway length: 5,250 ft.; width: 150 ft.
Runway Lighted
All visual - no instrument approach
283 degrees, 26 miles out from the Mendocino VOR, frequency 112.3
Traffic advisories - 122.7
Airport office closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays and some holidays (such as Thanksgiving and Christmas).
Available fuel: 100LL, low-lead - self-serve card-lock - Texaco
"The Hayloft"
Being There...and FLYING Here