Or just use this guide to create your own trip. You may stop where you want when you want and for as long as you want. On the other hand, this is your adventure. This 53-mile driving tour may be completed in about 2 1/2 hours without any stops. Wandering through the old western-style gold rush towns and perusing their antique stores with the help of our companion brochure.Taking in the beauty of the peaceful, untouched backroads of California.Visiting a water-powered foundry and machine shop.Finding out about the challenges of traveling to California by land or sea in 1848.Hearing stories about actual mining life, plucked from the pages of a gold miner’s diary.Learning about different types of mining such as placer, hard-rock, and hydraulic.You'll also visit the Shenandoah Valley and learn how wine making, which also started here in the 1850s, created liquid gold for some of the early pioneers. You'll drive through the California Gold Rush towns of Fiddletown, Amador City, Sutter Creek and Jackson. You'll learn about the hard-rock mining era of the California Gold Rush which began in the 1850s, shortly after the area's placer mines began to run dry. Our journey starts in Placerville and follows lush vineyard-covered backroads to Jackson. On our drive from Placerville to Jackson we will travel through parts of California's historic Mother Lode, one of the state's best-known gold mining districts, and the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. You may read the first blog in this series at California's Gold Rush: A Highway 49 Driving Tour from Auburn to Placerville. The app is free, this audio driving tour, which is one of four that takes you along the Mother Lode from Auburn to Jamestown, currently sells for $11.99. To use VoiceMap, you will need to download the VoiceMap app from the Apple Store or Google Play. The audio driving tour, it is available at VoiceMap and listed under Amador County. Download that here if you are interested. We have also created a companion brochure, Hiking and Walking Tours of the Gold Country. You may download a souvenir brochure for this tour here. To bring this story to life we will weave in excerpts from miners' diaries. We will visit the towns of Placerville, Fiddletown, Sutter Creek and Jackson as well as visit a number of hard-rock mines, or at least what remains of them. As you drive along some of California's most peaceful backroads, we will share with you the history of the California Gold Rush. This blog follows my VoiceMap audio driving tour Hard-Rock Mining in California: A Highway 49 Driving Tour to Jackson.
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