Red Bluff Recreation Area


This sprawling park of meadows on the east bank of the Sacramento River has interpretive trails, bicycle paths, boat ramps, a wildlife-viewing area with excellent bird-watching, and a salmon and steelhead ladder (most active July to September).


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