Driving Directions and 'The Loop'.
The Loop is three major destination sites- Hat Creek, Lakeview & Woodrat - all less than four hours apart.  

Downloadable POI

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Click on the Woodrat and Lakeview Links below for more information about those sites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

California, United States, North America

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Bay Area (starting on I-80 East in Fairfield) - (travel 10.5 miles) Merge onto I-505 (North).  (travel 33 miles)  At I-5 I-505 Exit, bear LEFT (North-West) onto I-5. (travel 128 miles) Turn RIGHT (East) onto SR-299. (travel 55 miles) turn RIGHT (South) onto SR-89.  (travel 11 miles) turn left onto Doty Road.  Immediately on you left will be Fireside Village. Stop there to pick up a site guide at the pilot bulletin board or in the store.  Summary: 236.7 miles (3 hours, 59 minutes) 

Sacramento - Travel I-5 North for 158 miles to Redding. Turn RIGHT (East) onto SR-299. (travel 55 miles) turn RIGHT (South) onto SR-89. (travel 11 miles) turn left onto Doty Road. Immediately on you left will be Fireside Village. Stop at Fireside and pick up a site guide at the pilot bulletin board or in the store.  Summary: 224 miles (3 hours, 45 minutes)

 Reno - At US-395 Exit 66, turn LEFT (North) onto US-395 [North-South Fwy]. (travel 81.5 miles) Bear RIGHT (North-West) onto SR-36. (Travel 10.2 miles) Bear RIGHT (North) onto SR-44 [Feather Lake Hwy]. (travel 46 miles) Turn RIGHT (North) onto SR-89. (travel 11.2 miles) Turn RIGHT (East) onto Doty Rd, immediately on you left will be Fireside Village. Stop at Fireside and pick up a site guide at the pilot bulletin board or in the store.  Summary: 149.0 miles (3 hours)

 Medford OR. - Travel I-5 (South) for 88 miles. At I-5 SR-89 Exit, turn LEFT (North-East) onto SR-89 (travel 67 miles). Turn left onto Doty Road.  Immediately on you left will be Fireside Village.Stop at Fireside and pick up a site guide at the pilot bulletin board or in the store.  Summary: 155.2 miles (2 hours, 44 minutes)

 

 

Downloadable POI (Points Of Interest) for Hat Creek Rim.  Waypoints for the site are available here.

The POI includes:  Launches and landing areas (for Burney Mountain too), pilot bulletin board, Fireside Village Store and Cafe, Hat Creek Hereford Ranch RV Park and Campground.
More local amenities and attractions can be found here but are not converted to POI.  

If you need to convert the POI to a format compatible to your navigation system, I found PoiEdit to be a very useful program.  It will batch convert files - you can find this option under "tools".  You can download it here for free.
Also, to load POI on a Garmin unit, download the Garmin POI Loader here for free. 

PLEASE NOTE:  It is beneficial if you use the site map along with the POI.  Turn-by-turn errors are possible, depending on the unit you have and the maps that are loaded on it (especially with the more remote POI).  Also, vehicle navigation systems don't always take you on the most logical route - if you have one you know that.  One constant I have found with my Garmin c550; the final destination direction and straight-line distance information is reliable - just like a waypoint it will take you to your desired destination.

 

 

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