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![Redding](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Sundial_Bridge_at_Turtle_Bay_%28cropped%29.jpg)

# Redding

Redding is a city in and the county seat of Shasta County, California, United States, and the economic and cultural capital of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California.

[Plan a trip to Redding](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Redding) [From Sacramento](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sacramento&to=Redding)

## Every way there

- Sacramento → Redding 236 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sacramento-to-redding) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sacramento&to=Redding)
- Reno → Redding 249 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · $26–35 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/reno-to-redding) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Reno&to=Redding)
- Oakland → Redding 310 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · $27–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/oakland-to-redding) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Oakland&to=Redding)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Redding, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Redding](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/redding)

What Redding has

- N Scheduled flights nearest airport SMF is 221 km away
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Chico, 106 km.

40.586°, -122.392°

Redding lies along the Sacramento River, 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento, and 120 miles (190 km) south of California's northern border with Oregon. Its population was 93,611 at the 2020 census.

How locals move

## Getting around Redding the local way

- Get in Do not hitch-hike or pick up hitch-hikers.

From [Wikivoyage: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Whiskeytown_National_Recreation_Area), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding%2C_California), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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