Explore Sacramento River Bend, California

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From the lush riparian areas surrounding the Sacramento River and its tributaries to the rolling hills of the blue oak savanna, the Bureau of Land Management’s Sacramento River Bend area offers diverse habitat for bald eagles, osprey, migratory and songbirds, deer, and salmon. You can enjoy hunting, camping, hiking, horseback riding, cycling, boating, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. The Sacramento River Bend area is at the historic territorial intersection of two Native American tribes: the Yana to the east, and the Nomlaki to the west. Ancestors of these hunter-gatherers have left evidence indicating 6,000 to possibly 10,000 years of prehistoric existence. Traces of Native uses across the landscape include villages, hunting and fishing camps, stone tool workshops, occupation rock shelters, circular stone features and rock art. Their use was focused on the river and major streams, and left a rich prehistoric legacy as yet little explored or damaged. These cultural resources are fragile, irreplaceable and protected by law. he Wild and Scenic Rivers Act provides three levels of river classification: wild, scenic, and recreational. Wild rivers are free of dams, generally inaccessible except by trail, and represent vestiges of primitive America. Scenic rivers are free of dams, with shorelines or watersheds that are still largely primitive and shorelines that are largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. Recreational rivers are readily accessible by road or railroad, may have some development along their shorelines, and may have been dammed in the past.

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