Spyrock (formerly, Spy Rock) is an
unincorporated community
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of ranches in
Mendocino County
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,
California
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.
It is located around Spyrock Road, which runs east of
Highway 101
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to the
Eel River and
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a mainline railroad from the former ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka, with a connection to the national railroad system at Schellville. The railroad has gone through a complex h ...
.
It is named after Spy Rock, a 540 ft landmark hill on the east side of the river, and
The Wildlands Conservancy operates the 5,832 acres Spyrock reserve in the area.
A post office operated at Spyrock from 1910 to 1911, and from 1915 to 1967.
Spy Rock Elementary School located on Spy Rock Road is in Laytonville Unified school district, although Spy Rock previously had its own school district.
There was a station on the railroad named Spy Rock which until 1914 was named Redwine.
In 1982 a
Petroglyph
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site was discovered beside Spy Rock Road which provided the first evidence of complex rock art boulders in the western United States.
The
Spy Rock Road album by
The Lookouts
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was named after the road by
Larry Livermore
Lawrence Hayes (born October 28, 1947), better known by his stage name Larry Livermore, is an American singer, musician, record producer, and author, best known as the co-founder of Lookout Records.
Biography
In 1977, Hayes began to attend punk ...
who lived in Spy Rock in the 1980s.
Spy Rock features prominently in the 2021
Hulu
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docuseries
Sasquatch
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.
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California
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