The journey to Weaverville is the perfect appetizer for what awaits – serpentine mountain roads that gradually transport you from the hustle of modern California to a place where time moves at a more ...

The Taoist temple, formally named “The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds,” provides guided tours offering fascinating glimpses into the lives and spiritual practices of Chinese immigrants who ...

These two historic towns in the California mountains offer a thriving arts scene, vintage shopping, and the state's oldest ...

Places like Sonora, Jamestown and Columbia aren’t ghost towns but living testaments to the past, with buildings that date back to the mid-1800s, when the California gold rush was booming, and ...

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By 1849, more than 10,000 people toiled along the banks of the American River and Coloma had grown to 13 hotels, two banks and dozens of other businesses, all opened to serve the miners. Unfortunately ...

The Colosseum project has a rich history of mining dating to the California Gold Rush, but it wasn’t until 1986 that industrial-scale gold mining took place on the property.