There's lots of little car shows all summer in every little town and berg up here. Some are larger than others. I like the little shows because you see different cars. The biggest show is Kool April Nites in Redding...and I'll be damned, it's in April. There's a week of show and shines followed by a big cruise Friday and the show on Saturday. It's a great event. I think there were 1800ish cars this year.
http://www.koolaprilnites.com/
This area is Chevy/Ford country. Mopars draw a lot of attention, especially Darts because you see so few of them. Sometimes I can't get home because I get stopped in the Lowes parking lot or the gas station with people asking me about the Dart. Lots of thumbs up driving home at night.
Yreka, Weed (Rolling Weed Car Show), Weaverville also all have nice size shows but again there are literally shows every weekend in the north. Most towns have several per year. Here's a calendar from July on that has some of the shows.
http://www.shastaclassicscarclub.com/calendar/
Burney has 2 or 3 shows a year it seems. I think the group up there is the Mountain Cruisers that puts on the shows.
Because we're spread out and rural up here you do need to drive a little distance to a lot of the shows but that's what it's all about. Getting out driving that Mopar.
It was 109 or 110 today depending upon which weather service you use. I have no air in my Dart daily driver but it doesn't bother me. I live east of town 10 miles so once I hit the highway it's very comfortable. Like my dad used to say, 4 at 65 air conditioning.
Burney is somewhat cooler than Redding although it's still hot. It was 98 up there today.
Not sure what else you like to do. Lots of hiking, backpacking, water sports, fishing and all that up here too. In the summer the lakes, the mountains or the coast are the places to cool off. Shasta Lake is the biggest as you already know but a lot of out of town people never get out to check out Whiskeytown Lake. It doesn't get drawn down until late summer or early fall and then never as low as Shasta. Shasta is very low right now and always kind of a muddy lake. Whiskeytown Lake is cool, clear and almost full. It's open for sailing, skiing, paddle sports and swimming. No personal water craft. It's a real gem. We take the dogs out there swimming too. I'm guessing you know about the Burney area and it's natural and man-made attractions.
There's also the Redding Drag Strip.
http://reddingdragstrip.info/wordpress/ It's future is a little up in the air right now because the airport wants to add another runway.
We have a
ton of tweekers up here in Shasta County but then now days it seems to be getting common everywhere. Certain neighborhoods are prone to burglaries by them. You just learn where those areas are and stay away. They pretty much concentrate themselves in the same neighborhoods and parks and in the old rundown motels south of town and downtown from the old highway system before the interstate was built. There are lots of areas without them.
Prepare yourself for a quieter, slower life style. The only traffic jams in Redding are on Cypress Street and it's intersections. Morning, the noon hour and late afternoon and there's good options to avoid them. The freeways and highways and surface streets keep moving. It's not at all like down there.
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