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Gold Country Adventures

Overnight in the Gold Country! "Golden Slumbers"

The California Gold Country may include visits to old mining camps, sights along the way, history of the discovery of gold in California. Learn how the gold camps were founded, by whom, and how they prospered. Choose your adventure investigating historical sites.

Sutter Creek, named for John Sutter who owned the saw mill, was where gold was discovered in 1848.

The town of Jackson was named after the famous Indian fighter Colonel Alden Jackson. Today, the famous Kennedy Mine in Jackson still stands and is open for tours. Amador City offers many historic buildings including Amador Whitney Museum. Columbia is a state park, as well as a town and one of the best preserved areas in the Gold Country. In this legendary mining town, where prospectors were picking thirty pound nuggets off the ground in 1850.

Sample Itinerary

  • Breakfast at the hotel or local restaurant
  • Hotel Check-out
  • Gold Country tour
  • Marshall Monument
  • Gold Country Visitor's Center
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  • Chuckwagon BBQ Lunch at the American River
  • Gold Panning Demonstration and you can try it too!
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  • Depart Coloma Gold Country enroute to original point of origin
  • Meal and rest stops as needed enroute
  • Return to original point of origin approximately 10:00 p.m.
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