Ti Bar, Hickox Mine 27. Bar Flat offers a primitive and expansive picnic or camping experience for those who like rockhounding within a river setting. Roosevelt elk are the largest native land mammals in California and are likely to be seen browsing from here to Orleans. Be cautious, they are easily startled and not intimidated by vehicles.
Elk can be dangerous.
The return of heavy rains in 1998 soaked the east canyon, resulting in a million yards of mountain sliding toward the Klamath and taking the highway with it. The nearby Ti Bar Demonstration Project ongoing in this area is a collaboration between the Karuk Natural Resources Department and the Forest Service. Siskiyou County Museum Ten Eyck Placer Mine was a hydraulic mine, the largest in the area in 1881. The mine became very profitable, allowing Luther to be the first in the area to own a motorized vehicle. Though the roads were primitive at best, the family walked all the way to Somes where the car was parked, just to take a Sunday drive.