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Willits is a city in Mendocino County, California, United States. The population was 5,073 at the 2000 census.

The city is the eastern terminus of the California Western Railroad (otherwise known as the "Skunk Train"), running through the Coast Redwood forests to coastal Fort Bragg. Willits is at the center of Mendocino County and its redwood forests, calling itself " the "Heart of Mendocino County and Gateway to the Redwoods."

Willits is the home of the Frontier Days & Rodeo, the oldest continuous rodeo in California (held every July), Roots of Motive Power Locomotive Museum and the Mendocino County Museum. Willits was the final home of the racehorse Seabiscuit: Ridgewood Ranch, where Seabiscuit trained, recuperated, and lived out his retirement, is located a few miles south of the city.

Outside of the city is a Boy Scouts Of America camp called Camp Wente.

Willits is at the center of Mendocino County in the Little Lake Valley, 20 miles (32 km) north of Ukiah on U.S. Route 101 (otherwise known as the Redwood Highway). The mountains to the west cause Willits to have a cool winter, hot summer climate. The town is located at 39.404357, -123.350947.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.3 km² (2.8 mi²), all land.

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