The Old Arrow Tree

No state plaque stands; two carved boards on the snag stand in. The register says only that the tree is supposed to mark a treaty, and accounts disagree on whose. One makes it the boundary between the Wiyot of the Blue Lake country and the Whilkut and Chilula upriver; another names the Hupa (Natinixwe) and Karuk; a third tells of a war won by the "Korbel," the brothers whose mill town lies half a mile downhill. Passers-by left arrows or twigs in the bark. Before 1913 someone set the offerings alight, and the fire climbed the trunk.

What the plaque says

Indian Arrow Tree Site of treaty between coast and mountn. Indian tribes High Noon Lioness Club 1988 Indian Arrow Tree

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary — 7.4 mi
  A wildlife sanctuary that is also the town's sewage works, because Arcata turned down the state's plan.
• Carson Mansion — 12 mi
  The house Eureka's biggest lumberman began in 1884 on the bluff above his own mill, and the story told about why.
• Sue-meg State Park — 21 mi
  A Yurok place that carried a settler's name for ninety years and took its own back in 2021.
• Tall Trees Grove — 24 mi
  Where a 1963 measurement found the world's tallest known tree on timber company land, and helped decide where a national park would go.

More markers nearby

• Arcata and Mad River Rail Road Company — 2.3 mi
• Camp Curtis — 7.0 mi
• Jacoby Building — 7.2 mi
• City of Eureka — 12 mi