USA🇺🇸, California, Fort Ross

Fort Ross is a corner of tsarist Russia 80 km north of San Francisco. The former Russian colony, founded during the fur rush, occupies 1300 hectares and is a national historical monument of the USA. The fort still attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists.

Guests come to the picturesque national park to see the sights that have been preserved since the beginning of the XIX century, in particular, the house of the commandant of the fortress, the chapel of the Holy Trinity, the residence of the heads of the colony, a wooden mill, as well as administrative buildings and fortress walls made of solid redwood trunks. The Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity regularly holds services, which many Americans of Russian origin gather for.

Tourists come to Fort Ross also to walk through the orchard, which is more than a century and a half old. Or to see the San Andreas fault between the North American and Pacific plates with a memorial sign about the earthquake that occurred here in 1906.