On 1-5, 136 miles North of Sacramento/25 miles South of Redding. A reward for venturing as far north as Red Bluff in the off-peak months of September or October are the jumping fish of the Salmon Viewing Plaza, on Sale Lane, where underwater video cameras capture the Sacramento River’s ladder-climbing salmon as they return to their spawning grounds. Otherwise, only the adobe home of William B. Ide, at the eponymous-named state historic park on Adobe Road, merits a quick look. Ide was the first and only president of the 26-day Bear Flag Republic – created in 1846 when American settlers in California declared independence from Mexico, prior to joining the U.S. – and later erected this dwelling beside the Sacramento River. Ide’s Adobe Ferry subsequently provided an important transportation link between the state’s main gold-producing areas.