Port Costa, founded in 1879 as the landing for the railroad ferries Solano and Contra Costa, was once one of the busiest wheat shipping ports in the nation and a thriving waterfront community.
Today it's a sleepy enclave of 190 residents, but on the weekends that number swells as visitors, especially bikers, brave the twisting, narrow country roads to get to this quirky town nestled between rolling hills and the Carquinez Strait.
Here's the beginning of the road...it narrows much more as it approaches Port Costa...