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Do the Bigfoot bash in Northern California’s Willow Creek
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Willow Creek-China Flat museum curator Al Hodgson holds what he claims is a plaster cast from the legendary Bigfoot in a 2003 photograph. Bigfoot means big business in this neck of the Humboldt County woods.
Monterey Bay has the Strawberry Festival.
Gilroy has the Garlic Fesitval.
Willow Creek, in lush Humboldt County, doesn’t produce strawberries or garlic; its claim to fame is Bigfoot sightings. That’s right, sasquatch. Yeti. The big-footed creature with the fallen arches that was allegedly first spotted there — and named Bigfoot for the tracks it left — 50 years ago.
So, it’s no surprise that Willow Creek, along California 299, is home to the annual Bigfoot Days, starting Labor Day weekend.
The shindig starts with a Bigfoot Parade on Saturday morning, starring the hairy biped himself (or herself?). (The Bigfoot costume might remind you of the one used in an apparent hoax recently when a couple of men claimed they found a sasquatch corpse in the woods of northern Georgia.)
After the parade, the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum, which includes a Bigfoot exhibit, will host an ice cream social for all the kids. (No word if sasquatch will attend.)
A car show with live bands, food and craft booths at the nearby park round out the festivities. Possible highlight: The appearance of a woman once identified by a now-defunct tabloid as Bigfoot’s baby’s mama. Go to the Bigfoot Days celebration site for more details and directions to the festival.
– Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times staff writer
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Willow Creek-China Flat museum curator Al Hodgson holds what he claims is a plaster cast from the legendary Bigfoot in a 2003 photograph. Bigfoot means big business in this neck of the Humboldt County woods.
Monterey Bay has the Strawberry Festival.
Gilroy has the Garlic Fesitval.
Willow Creek, in lush Humboldt County, doesn’t produce strawberries or garlic; its claim to fame is Bigfoot sightings. That’s right, sasquatch. Yeti. The big-footed creature with the fallen arches that was allegedly first spotted there — and named Bigfoot for the tracks it left — 50 years ago.
So, it’s no surprise that Willow Creek, along California 299, is home to the annual Bigfoot Days, starting Labor Day weekend.
The shindig starts with a Bigfoot Parade on Saturday morning, starring the hairy biped himself (or herself?). (The Bigfoot costume might remind you of the one used in an apparent hoax recently when a couple of men claimed they found a sasquatch corpse in the woods of northern Georgia.)
After the parade, the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum, which includes a Bigfoot exhibit, will host an ice cream social for all the kids. (No word if sasquatch will attend.)
A car show with live bands, food and craft booths at the nearby park round out the festivities. Possible highlight: The appearance of a woman once identified by a now-defunct tabloid as Bigfoot’s baby’s mama. Go to the Bigfoot Days celebration site for more details and directions to the festival.
– Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times staff writer
