Guerneville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California, United States. The town is historically known for the logging community, formed in the late 1800s. Guerneville is also known for its natural environment, liberal atmosphere, and proximity to wine-tasting and redwood forests. It was founded by the Guerne family in the 1850s.
Downtown area along Main Street
Hiram Epperly's Saloon in Guerneville, 1875
Aerial view of Guerneville during flooding on the Russian River
Old Russian River Bridge
Russian River (California)
The Russian River is a southward-flowing river that drains 1,485 sq mi (3,850 km2) of Sonoma and Mendocino counties in Northern California. With an annual average discharge of approximately 1,600,000 acre feet (2.0 km3), it is the second-largest river flowing through the nine-county Greater San Francisco Bay Area, with a mainstem 115 mi (185 km) long.
The estuary of the Russian River, north of Bodega Bay
An Autumnal Sunset on the Russian River Evening Glow by William Keith, 1878
The Russian River downstream of Duncans Mills
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), almost 8 feet (2.4 m) long, caught in 1998 in the Russian River's "Hacienda Hole" in Guerneville, California