About the Property

Situated atop Albion ridge, the Oak Show’s redwood ringed meadow delivers striking views of Railroad Gulch and Table Mountain. The gulch’s northwest vista provides glimpses of the fog wispily rolling in from the coast, a golden hour of glowing sun rays on the distant ridge top, and the sunset colors lighting up the sky. The Oak Show’s unique transitional pigmy forest landscape affords beautiful redwoods alongside the short bushy trees and plants of the pigmy forest and hard clay soils. With wild rhododendrons and manzanita’s blossoming in the spring, abundant huckleberries ripening in the summer and wild mushrooms popping up in the fall and winter, there is always something to see at the Oak Show.

The Oak Show earned its name many years ago as lumber company property, which was heavily logged, leaving mostly tan oaks behind. Locals made firewood from these trees and often gathered here for large bonfires and parties. Thus it became quite a “show.”