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Emerald Empire Adventures has moved
We are now in our new location at 9001 North State St. in Redwood Valley on Hwy 101. We are in the big red and white quonset hut next to the Ukiah Antiques Mall on thh east side of Highway 101, the Redwood Highway. There's almost always someone here so stop by anytime. We are now renting bikes, rafts and inflatable kayaks for you self guided types, as well as providing a full range of guided Custom Adventure Experiences and many scheduled events.
Are YOU a Hidden Treasure of the Emerald Empire?
If you wish, we'll put up a profile of you on the appropriate Hidden Treasures page, our Partners Directory, where our Adventurers can add you or your venue to their Itineraries, as they customize their Adventure Experience. Our mission is to act as the string that ties together a unique necklace of all the Hidden Treasures concealed throughout our Emerald Empire, designed by and for each individual or group. By spreading the wealth we enrich ourselves and each other. This is the real hidden treasure of this Emarld Empire.
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18th Annual A Taste of Redwood Valley, Father's Day Weekend June 19, 20 & 21
Friday night Vintner's DinnerSaturday and Sunday all day
Private wine tasting at 9 local wineries and the world renowned Germain-Robin Craft Distillers.
Emerald Empire Adventures will provide safe comfortable transportation with a local docent/guide to let you in on the local culture, history and vintages. For details and booking information click here.
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Emerald Empire Adventures has moved
We are now in our new location at 9001 North State St. in Redwood Valley on Hwy 101. We are in the big red and white quonset hut next to the Ukiah Antiques Mall on thh east side of Highway 101, the Redwood Highway. There's almost always someone here so stop by anytime. We are now renting bikes, rafts and inflatable kayaks for you self guided types, as well as providing a full range of guided Custom Adventure Experiences and many scheduled events.
Are YOU a Hidden Treasure of the Emerald Empire?
If you wish, we'll put up a profile of you on the appropriate Hidden Treasures page, our Partners Directory, where our Adventurers can add you or your venue to their Itineraries, as they customize their Adventure Experience. Our mission is to act as the string that ties together a unique necklace of all the Hidden Treasures concealed throughout our Emerald Empire, designed by and for each individual or group. By spreading the wealth we enrich ourselves and each other. This is the real hidden treasure of this Emarld Empire.
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Find unique custom or pre-packaged Multi-Sport and Cultural Adventures in Northern California; whitewater rafting, on and off-road cycling, hiking, food, wine, almost anything you can imagine.
Now Booking!!
Mushrooms and Mountainbikes, Winter Weekend Special at Leonard Lake Reserve
Get the details and book on-line here
Choose from one of our many Package Tours or build your own custom itinerary by choosing among the activities and venues in the Hidden Treasures Pages. We also provide shuttle service to many of the festivals, wine celebrations and other events going on all around our Emerald Empire all the time, so check out our interactive Event Calendar, come on up and let Emerald Empire Adventures take you from your hotel to the venue and back in the safety and comfort of an air conditioned tour bus (or limousine if you really want to make and impression).
Emerald Empire Adventures provides incomparable local knowledge and access to facilities not available to the general public; private campgrounds in unforgettable settings, hidden lakes and hundreds of miles of off-the-beaten-path cycling that simply cannot be had anywhere else.
We craft Northern California experiences for your family, your company or your club including individualized itineraries, music and dinner in the redwoods, private wine tasting experiences and First Peoples songs and stories with cycling, hiking, whitewater rafting, and/or horseback riding in the same way our world-class vintners craft their wines.
Use our intimate knowledge of the Northern California terrain, terroir, culture and climate together with your own personal inspirations and ideas to put together an unforgettable experience ranging from nitty-gritty, down and dirty back country to plush spa 5 star cuisine string quartet or all the above.
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This site is an Adventure in itself, there's a lot to discover here so take your time and enjoy. You can build all the preliminary Itineraries you like, edit, delete, compare costs. No charges are made until we work together with you personally to nail down the details.
If you would like, listen to some local voices while you explore our Emerald Empire; KZYX&Z Mendocino Public Radio (below left). You never know what you might hear, especially late at night.
Quick Links
Local Public Radio |
Packaged Tours |
Event Calendar |
AVBC |
Taste of Redwood Valley Father's Day Weekend Tour Bus |
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Trinity, Humboldt, Lake, Yolo, Sonoma and Mendocino counties are the heart of the Emerald Empire, a place where time is elastic as the spirit, the body refreshes the soul, and the soul renews the body.
When the illegitemati are about to carborundum you, come on down to our neck of the woods. We will send you home ready to carborundum THEM!
We'll tailor a trip to suit your frame of mind and body. You can tap into the adrenaline of a bone rattling single track descent through ancient redwoods and raft some rapids. Then ply your senses with wine and food and song .Choose from our menu of activities and venues and build a plan customized to the varying interests of your group. We cater to families and large groups with varying interests and abilities, so everyone goes home happy and refreshed. Imagine YOUR Adventure, and we will handle the details.
What we do:
Customized Multi-Sport and Cultural Adventures:
We specialize in whitewater rafting, bicycle touring (single track and road), vineyard, brewery, and unique cultural experiences. Together with our many partners we provide a one-stop shop for folks who are inclined to the extra-ordinary. You can go bare bones or fully guided, supported, serenaded and massaged; you decide.
You choose from our menu of activities and accommodations to suit your tastes and abilities. We make all the arrangements, provide guides, transportation and equipment as required and you enjoy. Book 5 folks with you and you go for half price. Book ten and the 11th goes for free. We can handle less than five, but the costs increase per person.
We also provide pre-packaged Package Tours,
In this section you will find a selection of well rehearsed Pub Crawls, Vineyard tours, rafting Adventures and guided cycling tours of our incomparable countryside, showing you our world the way only a local can. Check out our Route maps to get a feel for where you might want to go. So if you are just passing through, see what we have on offer there.
The Emerald Empire is just 2 hours drive north of THE City:
We are based in Ukiah, a world away from the daily grind of traffic, 28 hour days and urban mayhem. Use the Wikmapia map below to take a look around and get your bearings. If you spot something interesting, we can take you there in style and along the way we'll show you a few of the hidden gems you can't find on any map. Why not bring the whole posse for wine, dine and music in the moonshine? Fully catered wilderness adventures like no place else.
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- We take Adventure Travel to a new level: What we offer is an end-to-end experience of the many dimensions of this unique place. To us, Adventure is not just a headlong tumble down ten miles of class 4 rapids, its also about meeting the people who make this country special; the chef who welcomes you back to camp with the smells of a gourmet dinner composed from fresh. organic, local produce, while the musician whom you've chosen from our Hidden Treasures pages soothes your City-borne anxieties. Then there are the special folks who run the cottages along the coast where you'll spend a cozy night after a day of breezing down the the Pacific Coast Highway, with the wind at your back, cycling through world-class scenery, all topped off with a long soak in a secluded hot springs. How's that for an Adventure away from the ordinary?
- Corporate Retreats: Lodging, speakers, massage therapists, activities calendars focusing on multi-sport exploration of all the Emerald Empire has to offer. We believe deeply in the beneficial effects of vigorous exercise interspersed with aggressive relaxation while immersed in the healing graces of the Emerald Empire.
- Unique cultural activities: There are dozens of festivals, wineries, breweries, arts enclaves, sustainable living pioneers, excellent restaurants in surprising places, cozy inns and plush spas scattered through this region. We know many of the proprietors personally and can string your sports activities together with accommodations and amenities to create an experience you'll remember forever.
- Scheduled Events: You can also choose from one of our many "pre-cooked" packages of popular itineraries.
- Bikes aboard the Skunk Train; : We can hook you up to ride The Skunk as a part of any adventure package, gaining access to some extreme back-country while taking a trip to the past. Our one-rail "skimmers" or rail bikes (available soon) adapt your bike to ride the rails for an experience unlike any other. Even those of moderate fitness can climb the modest 3% grades of the rail bed and the safety and isolation of the railroad right-of-way means no traffic danger, extraordinary scenery and the occasional very surprised critter along the way.
Please stay and browse our site and check out our many features
- Please note, we are currently in the initial stages of deploying the web site, so be patient, keep coming back because there is new material every day, and thanks for your patience.
- Google site search: Search for that thing you're sure is here but just can't remember where.
- Plan ahead (available soon) : Book on-line up to a year in advance so you're sure to get just the time slot and activities you want.
- Danger!: You will be required to acknowledge that you understand that many of our activities are inherently dangerous, as well as to provide us with assurance, in writing, that you have no physical, medical or psychological conditions that might cause harm to you or any other person while engaging in vigorous physical activity.
- Come blog with us (available soon): You can live-blog from the road, upload pictures and share your adventures with the world.
- Photo & Video Gallery: with your permission, we'll place a gallery of trip photos on our web site so you can share your adventure with friends and family.
- Adventure Itinerary Builder: Select the Adventures, events and services you want, give us a date, and we'll work together with you to nail down the details and give you a rate quote. Soon, you'll be able to book you package on-line.
- Contact Page (Smoke Signals): Send us a message to tell us what you think of our site, how we can improve our services, and what you would like to see here that's missing.
- Partner links: Let us know if you would like to be linked in to our network as a provider of services
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