Doug McConnell’s OpenRoad.TV Tips

November 2008

11/11/08

Where the Old West Still Lives: Modoc County

Most Californians have never traveled to the four corners of their state, at least three of them, anyway. One corner of California is actually pretty busy and many of us have been there. That's the southwest corner that consists of the San Diego metropolitan region. But the other three are anything but overrun, especially the northeast corner that rubs borders with Nevada and Oregon. This is the place where Old West still lives. Modoc County.

Modoc County has about 9,000 people and just one stoplight that blinks red on and off in the county seat of Alturas. It's a big, broad and rugged territory where cattle outnumber people, where the wide-open landscape evokes Wyoming more than California and where rough mountains climb to sensational views of a Surprise Valley. ...

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