Cascade, population 2, is in Butte County, California. It's a large wooded area, with one house and aproximately 10 cabins on the property, all owned by a local logging company. The attractions of Cascade are its cabins for rent, vast camping area, wild forested areas, horse and dirt bike trails, and most notoriously its very authentic wooden bar complete with hitching post. The drive up is also a draw, you wind through amazingly beautiful forest, spotting gorgeous waterfalls, the Feather River, and the lovely smells which accompany such things.
The road to Cascade is
snowed in during most of the winter, or muddy as hell and impassable. The
caretakers thus get
cabin fever and throw parties during the spring and summer. They hire a
band, buy a
ton of beer, put adds out for a
cook, and
staple fliers up all over the
county. Kick off is
Memorial Day weekend, but any
major holiday is likely to see a
party. The
drive up the mountains is about
50 miles from
Oroville, California, which will take you about 1.5 hours if you are used to
back roads.
Or drive like speed racer. Bring your
tent or
motor home, the cabins were already rented out last year. You can buy food from the
dumb-ass vendor who signed on to cook and not party
(last year that would have been my brother and I) or you can bring your own. Basically the only
rules here are no
motor vehicles or
horses on the green near the house, and no glass bottles near the bar. Anything else goes. Last year there was a 'who has the
biggest balls contest'.
Sadly, I was cooking. The music tends towards
country,
drinking songs, and
Jimmy Buffet. But you can find lots of
oversexed cowgirls,
cowboys,
bikers, and the occasional
Clamper. But it's fun dancing, regardless the music, and luckily you don't have to know how to line dance.
Every time I go up, I feel rather sorry for the house in Cascade, it needs a lot of TLC, and instead it gets bubble gum and duct tape. The area is intensely beautiful. I'd pay big bucks to live there, but instead, we just go and party 5 - 6 times a summer.