It’s been a hard year for everyone. This summer, how about we let the kids pretend like everything is OK in the world? These getaway spots offer perks for the grownups, like mountain bike trails, surf breaks, and rooftop bars, as well as the drive-in movie theaters, hot-springs-fed pools, and skate parks that will keep the kids happy.
Escalante, Utah
Photo: Courtesy Aleks Butman)
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is paradise for young explorers. They can wander among slot canyons, gape at sandstone arches and natural bridges, and dig for dinosaur fossils. If your kids can handle a six-mile round-trip hike, it’s worth the trek to Lower Calf Creek Falls, which drops 130 feet into a pool below. Take a drive on Hole in the Rock Road to explore hoodoos in Devils Garden or hike the family-friendly Peek-a-Boo and Spooky Gulch slot canyons. The reward: burgers and shakes at Nemo’s in the town of Escalante afterward. Yonder Escalante (RV sites from $69; cabins f
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click to flip through (2) Photo by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill The Egghead PB&J, pork belly, egg and onion jam on a biscuit. The canopies over the patio at Northtown Coffee flutter above a half dozen people having a late Monday breakfast. Sunshine slants onto picnic tables where diners in beanies and sunglasses hunker over to-go cups, blueberry crumble bars and biscuit and egg sandwiches wrapped in checkered paper. Inside, a red and yellow menu board hangs emblazoned with the Egghead menu a handful of grab-and-go sandwiches with eggs, pork belly, greens, some with maple butter and its logo, a cracked egg with glasses, drooling a little yolk. Beside the pair of glass cake stands packed with coffee cake and the covered tray of cookies is a stack of cards for Patches Pastries. But this is still Northtown Coffee, right?
Built in 1923, the Scotia Inn will soon be reopened under new ownership. | Photos by Andrew Goff.
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When the owners of Humboldt Bay Social Club announced on social media that they’d purchased the Scotia Inn with plans to transform and reopen it, the reaction was big: 1,200 likes and almost 200 comments on Instagram, another 750-plus reactions on Facebook and hundreds of comments.
“It was crazy,” said Jon O’Connor, who cofounded the Social Club with his wife, Amy Cirincione O’Connor.
“We are just shocked at the level of interest about it,” she agreed.
Clad in work clothes and facial coverings, with their young sons Aiden and Jordan scampering about, the O’Connors were offering a brief tour of the stately 98-year-old building, which served as a thriving hotel and bunk house during Scotia’s heyday as a company town for Pacific Lumber Co. but has since fallen on hard times.
TODAY in SUPES: COVID Hospitalizations at All-Time High, Cannabis Growers Blast County’s Marketing Efforts and a Permanent Hemp Ban is Passed
Screenshots from Tuesday’s meeting (clockwise from top left): Supervisor Rex Bohn, Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, Supervisor Mike Wilson, Supervisor Virginia Bass, Health Officer Ian Hoffman and Supervisor Steve Madrone.
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Another big day for the Humboldt County Board of supervisors. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
COVID-19 Update
In his latest COVID-19 update, Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Ian Hoffman said that while he expects the county to remain in the state’s purple tier, denoting widespread virus, for the coming weeks, he’s hopeful that we’re moving “over the top of that plateau” and can look forward to declining case counts. That’s what’s happening at the state level, and we tend to follow a bit behind statewide trends, he said. (Tuesday’s new-case count was just five.)