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Zenith Car Wash
Soap and soft cloth across a car window inside the wash tunnel at Zenith Car Wash

Self-serve · Humboldt County

The 24-hour self-serve car wash Humboldt County's trucks use

Boats off the bay, rigs off the ranch roads, work trucks off the job. The self-serve bays at Zenith Car Wash on Broadway in Eureka are open 24 hours with a high-pressure wand, a foaming brush, and vacuums beside every stall.

Open 9 to 6 daily, Sunday 9 to 5 · bays 24 hours

Built for what the county drives

Humboldt County drives trucks. Crew cabs from the timber and construction jobs, ranch rigs from Ferndale and Kneeland, boats and trailers from the bay and the Eel, and the lifted pickups that never fit a tunnel anywhere. The bays take all of it, at whatever hour the job ended.

  • Boats, trailers, and oversized trucks welcome
  • Undercarriage rinse for salt and mud
  • Vacuums at the stalls for the cab
  • Open 24 hours, every day of the year

Mud season and dust season

From October to April the county's back roads turn to mud and the Eel and Van Duzen bottoms flood. A truck comes home carrying half the road. From June to September the same roads turn to dust that gets into every seam. The wand handles both. The vacuum handles what came inside on your boots.

Next door when you want the crew to do it

During full-service hours the tunnel and the $65 Quick Clean Out run right beside the bays. Wash the truck bed yourself, then pull around and let the crew do the cab.

From around Humboldt

How far to the 24-hour bays?

Nearly every road in the county runs through Eureka, and Broadway is the one through the middle of it. Times are the usual drive in normal traffic.

  • 8min

    Cutten & Myrtletown

    About 3 miles · Harris or Myrtle to Broadway

    Across town. The wash is on the way to everything on the west side.

  • 9min

    Fields Landing & King Salmon

    About 6 miles · 101 north

    Boats off the bay: the self-serve bays take the trailer too.

  • 15min

    Arcata

    About 9 miles · 101 south across the bay

    Redwood sap and student-town street parking. Straight down 101 onto Broadway.

  • 17min

    Loleta

    About 13 miles · 101 north

    Dairy-country mud from October on.

  • 20min

    McKinleyville

    About 15 miles · 101 south

    Salt off Clam Beach and the airport fog.

  • 24min

    Blue Lake

    About 17 miles · 299 west to 101 south

    Summer dust off the river bar and 299.

  • 22min

    Fortuna

    About 18 miles · 101 north

    The wash is on the right as you come into Eureka.

  • 28min

    Ferndale

    About 20 miles · 211 to 101 north

    Eel River bottoms mud, and the salt from Centerville Beach.

  • 30min

    Trinidad

    About 24 miles · 101 south

    Sea spray on everything. Rinse the underside.

  • 28min

    Rio Dell & Scotia

    About 25 miles · 101 north

    Pair it with the Eureka run.

Directions from where you are

In their words

What 512 Google reviews say about this corner

4.4512 reviews on Google

4.2 on Yelp (45 reviews)

Under the new owners

"They did a fantastic job on my car, she looks beautiful. I took my truck in too! Thank you so much. The new owners are so amazing, customer service top notch."
Google review · September 2026

Quick Clean Out

"Wasn't expecting much but they actually made my car look brand new. Shockingly fast service too. Feels good."
Google review · July 2026

Self-serve bays

"A decent car wash with vacuums close to the stalls. There's also a full service car wash right next to it."
Google review · July 2026

Swipe for more

The crew pre-scrubs by hand before the tunnel

Hand dried at the end, not just blown

Fast, even on a busy Saturday

Friendly at the window, treats for the dog

Questions

Self-serve car wash in Humboldt County: questions

Can I bring a boat trailer?

Yes. Trailers and boats are exactly what the self-serve bays are for. Rinse the salt off the trailer frame before it sits.

Is there an undercarriage wash?

In the bays, you do it yourself with the wand, and it is worth doing after the jetty road or a muddy ranch road. The automatic tunnel washes undercarriages during full-service hours.

How late is it open?

It does not close. The bays run 24 hours, every day.

Pull in. No reservation, no app, no line to stand in.

1441 Broadway in Eureka, 9 to 6 daily, Sunday 9 to 5, 24 hours for the bays.

Eureka: open 9 to 6 daily, Sunday 9 to 5 · bays 24 hours

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