Brooktrails, California

Brooktrails is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California which shares the Willits zip code, 95490. The population was 3,235 at the 2010 census.AboutAfter being extensively logged from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century, Brooktrails Township was founded under a special provision in state law. It was marketed as a vacation mountain retreat for San Franciscans in the 1970s. It has approximately 6,600 parcels varying in size from 0.3acre to 10acre. The smaller parcels are mostly surrounded by the Township owned Brooktrails Redwood Park 2600acre forest green belt composed of Tan Oak, Douglas Fir and Redwood. Brooktrails has over 30 hiking trails and two lakes, Lake Emily and Lake Ada Rose, that store and direct water to its water treatment plant. There is also a small market, and a coffee shop. The Brooktrails Township Community Services District, governed by a five-member elected board of directors, provides water, sewer, and recreational services to the residents.In 2012, Mendocino County paid the back assessments on hundreds of abandoned Brooktrails lots although they stopped paying water, sewer and fire assessments for those lots.GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 7.3sqmi, 99.36% of it land, and 0.64% of it water. The Fire Department and golf course lie at an elevation of 1634ft, but its western edge rises to nearly 3000ft.