Cache Creek

Experience Cache Creek in the Cache Creek Natural Area with an America Outdoors outfitter, who provide whitewater rafting in a secluded, remote section of this area! 

This secluded, hilly expanse of oak woodlands, grasslands, and chaparral is a combination of over 70,000 acres of BLM managed lands and 4,700 acres of State and County lands.  The Natural Area is traversed by Cache Creek, with its year-round water flow. Elevation ranges from 3200 feet atop Brushy Sky High, down to 600 feet in the eastern end of Cache Creek along State Route 16. Showcasing the area is about 35 miles of the main fork of Cache Creek and 2.5 miles of the north fork. Also present are several tributary creeks that contain permanent water.

Along the creek, wetland grasses, rushes and sedges grow under a canopy of cottonwoods, willows, oaks and alders providing excellent wildlife habitat. About half the Cache Creek area is shrubland, with vegetation including mixed chaparral, serpentine chaparral and chemise chaparral. The remainder of the area is about equally divided between native oaks and grassland. Numerous bird species have been spotted here.

Cache Creek offers visitors spectacular views of the threatened bald eagle, free-roaming tule elk herds, wild turkey, black bear, blacktail deer and other upland species. The area also holds pockets of the rare adobe lily, and archaeological resources dating back 12,000 years. The Hill Patwin Indians used the area as a refuge after their first contacts with Euro-Americans.

Within the Natural Area, Class III (medium) rapids await you on the Upper section of the creek.  Just 2 hours away from San Francisco, this is truly a treat for all!