Little River (formerly known as Littleriver, Bell’s Harbor, and Kent’s Landing) is a small census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 66 feet (20 m), 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Mendocino and paperwork along the Pacific Ocean coast upon State Route 1. The town takes its publicize from the simple Little River. The town middle sits upon a scenic bluff overlooking the mouth of the Little River and hosts a grocery store, two gas pumps, a herald office, and a restaurant within a single structure. The population was 94 at the 2020 census, down from 117 at the 2010 census.

Little River is house to several boutique inns and bed & breakfasts, making it a popular tourist End along the Pacific Coast. The Little River Place has two declare parks, much ocean access and diverse recreational opportunities including ocean kayaking, hiking, and canoeing. Little River Airport when its mile-long runway is 2 miles (3 km) east of town.

The ZIP Code is 95456. The community is inside Place code 707.

Little River was first contracted by three Beall men (pronounced Bell). They are thought to have arrived amongst 1852 and 1856 and are listed on the 1860 Mendocino County census, Big River township: Lloyd (56 years, a farmer born in Tennessee), Samuel (26 years, a farmer born in Missouri), and Harvey (24 years, a increase man born in Missouri). The Bealls associated the Moore Brothers who had preempted house and erected dwellings a short distance from the ocean north of the bay. Shortly after, in 1856, W.H. Kent purchased the Beall tract. The place was known as “Beall’s Harbor” and “Kent’s Landing” until 1864, when the say was tainted to “Littleriver Bay”. Ruel Stickney, Silas Coombs, and Tapping Reeves built a mill here, which provided the stimulus for the formation of the town of Little River. The town grew in the broadcast of the achievement of the mill suitably that eventually a schoolhouse, post house, shipyard, hotels, stores and blacksmith shops everything established themselves here.