Blue Lake, CA

[eureka1]

has increased 1000 % since the Casino opened and there have been several accounts in the Times-Standard, North Coast Journal etc documenting this. Have to disagree with Northern California on this point. The drunks from the casino roam the streets breaking into cars and houses looking for change or anything to keep going. The Blue Lake police chief was quite vivid in his description. Blue Lake is too swampy for me but I always take out of town visitors to the Mad River brewery (on Saturday when they give tours) and to the hatchery just because it's neat.

[patrz]

So, are there houses for sale in Blue Lake. For two old folks. We can buy outright for 200k or less. then we could live on our fixed income. Can you go boating on the river?
dragonslayer said it was "right at the fog line between the interior heat and the coastal cool. " I'm not sure what that means. Is it damp? Is it Hot? I'll go check out the city of blue lake link.
thanks.
eureka1 just scared the blue lake out of me.
guess it is back to looking around arcata. fortuna looked ok too.

[NorthernCalifornia]

The crimes of the Police Chief in Blue Lake alone should knock the rate up!

[grimstuff]

Whoa, for a second there I thought you were talking about Blue Lakes, Ca. Completely different place.

[TheDragonslayer]

Most of the crimes here are puny compared to the crime in the Bay Area or further south. Rape and murder are infrequent here and when it happens it makes the headlines. Blue Lake is not the only place around here that is out of the fog belt, there is Fieldbrook that is this side of Blue Lake that is in a north south running valley, less than 10 miles from the coast and can get hot in the summer and gets snow in the winter, but not every year. There is also Glendale, Maple Creek, Bayside, Indianola, Cutten and Myrtle Town besides McKinleyville. If one is interested in a good manufactured home in a park, they can be had for $80,000 for a small one to $150,000 or better for some of the really nice deluxe units, and these can be found within walking distance of the beach.

[jamesjr]

I lived in Blue Lake while I was going to school at Dell'Arte international, in the early 90s. The main sport in town is drinking, which leads to some fights. There were 3 constables who patroled by themselves with a dog, which barked the whole time he was being driven around. The town was mostly white, redneck, and mostly uneducated, and so small, that no one knew the names of any of the streets, but would give you landmark directions, "It's down by the Johnson's house across from the graveyard". No health care, one nurse came in once a month to see anyone for free who couldn't afford it, and the Blue Lake Market stocked 15 kinds of Vodka, which turned out to be the only pain medicine the elderly folks could afford. Back then there was a high rate of unemployment, because the lumber industry had gone kaput in the 80's. Many people who lived there had never been to Eureka, which is 14 miles away, or Arcata 7 miles away. One kid I met was just turning 21, and had never been to any other towns, but had been out in the forest hunting with his dad. The kids that I taught through the school, had an attitude of, 'I'm gonna be a trucker, if it's good enough for my dad, it's good enough for me.' There were a few families that had 8 people living in one building, and not much food to eat. The people there were mostly nice, but a little wary of us because we were liberal, and artists, and they had no idea what we really did. Some parents told their kids we were devil worshippers, lol! There were only a few businesses, so anyone who had a job, worked for the logging industry, or in another town. My guess is that the crime rate increased because of more drunk driving and fights fueled by the new casino, and most of those are from out of town. The lake was created by the Mad river flooding the area, but no longer exists, and many people supplemented their diets, by fishing the river, and hunting deer, even out of season, which I didn't mind, because There were a lot of poor families,and I would point the rangers or Chp's in the other direction when they were looking for someone with a game carcass.