In the small town of Sierra City, with a grocery store and two restaurants, there is one of my favorite spots in all of Northern California, the Kentucky Mine. This old gold mine and mill is one of the best preserved mills from the gold rush era and is a great way to both interact […]
Kentucky Mine Historic Park & Museum: Tour a Gold Rush Era Stamp Mill
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Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout Hike: A Historic Lookout & Crazy Stairs
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For over two years this hike has been on my “to do” list, but I had not been up to the Tahoe / Sierra County area to do it. The Reader’s Digest version of the hike is that it is a 6-mile roundtrip hike to an old fire lookout, that is only accessed by a pretty […]
