Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, Fort Bragg - Brief Article

Sunset, May, 2001

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is a rare jewel, the only public garden in the continental United States directly fronting the ocean.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens offers everything from colorful displays to thunderous waves. Manicured formal gardens, a dense coastal pine forest, fern-covered canyons, diverse plant collections, and flower-filled coastal bluffs overlooking the blue Pacific Ocean are among its many attractions. Whale fanciers can take shelter in the Cliff House to watch winter and spring migrations; bird watchers can be on the lookout for more than 100 species of birds that live in or visit the gardens annually.