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Rio Nido California Map

Explore Rio Nido, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Rio Nido, California

How to Use This Rio Nido, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rio Nido, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Rio Nido.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Rio Nido
State	California (CA)
County	Sonoma County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.521024
Longitude	-122.976943
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95446, 95471
Area Code	408, 669
County Seat	Santa Rosa

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About Rio Nido, California

Rio Nido is a locality in Sonoma County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Rio Nido is located at 38.5210°N, 122.9769°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95446, 95471.

Rio Nido emerges from the dense, shadowed floor of a canyon where the Russian River carves a slow, deliberate path through the thick timber. It lies 8.5 miles southwest of Healdsburg, CA (from Healdsburg, CA: bearing 223°T), and is situated 8.9 miles west-southwest of Windsor. The landscape is defined by the steep, rising walls of Pasquini Canyon, which funnel the cool, damp air of the morning into the narrow corridors of the valley. Massive, ancient trees dominate the canopy, their rough bark standing as silent witnesses to the quiet persistence of the forest, while the nearby Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve offers a sanctuary of filtered, amber light that shifts across the ferns as the sun tracks overhead. The atmosphere here remains heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying needles, a cool contrast to the golden, tinder-dry hills that rise in the distance toward the Coast Ranges.

Rio Nido carries the echoes of a former resort era, when visitors arrived by narrow-gauge rail to seek refuge in the shade of the redwoods, leaving behind a legacy of rustic cabins that now house a permanent, close-knit population. This local economy has transitioned from a seasonal destination for summer revelers into a quiet, year-round enclave where the pace is dictated by the slow seasonal rise and fall of the Russian River. Residents often find their way toward the Armstrong Nature Trail to traverse the quiet paths that wind through the towering groves, or they look toward the stillness of Redwood Lake for a moment of reflection away from the main thoroughfare. The character of Rio Nido persists in this deliberate isolation, a place where the modern world feels distant, replaced by the persistent, rhythmic hum of the wind moving through the high branches.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Korbel Museum (Museum) — 1.1 mi, 144° SE
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 292° W
JK Wright Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 211° SW
Lifvendahl (Gallery) — 1.7 mi, 221° SW
Redwood Forest Theater (Theatre) — 2.0 mi, 301° NW
Austin Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 2.1 mi, 322° NW
Sunset Beach (Local Park) — 2.6 mi, 118° SE
Hoot Owl (Gallery) — 4.0 mi, 205° SW
Steelhead Beach Fishing Access (State Recreation Area) — 4.0 mi, 108° E
Curtain Call Theatre (Theatre) — 4.0 mi, 206° SW
Monte Rio Theater (Cinema) — 4.1 mi, 206° SW
Bohemia Ecological Preserve (Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 177° S
West Pole (Viewpoint) — 5.2 mi, 211° SW
Sonoma Coast State Park (State Park) — 5.2 mi, 211° SW
Iron Horse Vineyards (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 137° SE
Christopher Queen Galleries (Gallery) — 6.2 mi, 222° SW
Duncans Mills Depot Museum (Museum) — 6.3 mi, 221° SW
Occidental Center For the Arts (Arts Centre) — 7.8 mi, 169° S
Occidental Veterans of World War 2 (Monument) — 7.9 mi, 169° S
Sturgeons Steam Mill – Historic (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 150° SE
Healdsburg Museum (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 044° NE
Windsor Museum (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 076° E
Russian River State Marine Conservation Area (Marine Protected Area) — 9.6 mi, 238° SW
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 10.0 mi, 223° SW
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 10.0 mi, 223° SW · 8,946 acres
Veteran's Memorial Grove (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 139° SE
Path to Peace (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 139° SE
O'Reilley Tarsir (Public Artwork) — 10.6 mi, 136° SE
Point Reyes National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 19.1 mi, 183° S · 135k acres
Phillip Burton Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 19.2 mi, 183° S · 33k acres

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