Indian Grinding Rock State Park has the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America! Back to Road Trips Back to Tarol's Homepage |
This is the last operating roundhouse left in North America |
This is the caboose that was in Back to the Future 3 |
It rained a lot the day and night before our train ride |
At Columbia we panned for gold, went bowling, had lunch at the saloon and visited the old brick schoolhouse on top of the hill! |
Rare aragonite crystals deep within Mercer Caverns |
The Angel's Camp Museum is simply awesome for kids who like to do activities - you can build a wagon wheel, play old time games like chess and tic tac toe, play with letter stamps emulating a printing press, etc. |
The sidewalks of Angel's Camp have bronze plaques for the winning jumping frog each year. Unsure of the reference? Another must read! "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain. Many of the frogs have very clever names :) |
Calaveras Big Trees State Park contains two beautiful giant sequoia groves. We took the easy walk through the North Grove. We saw where the infamous "drive through" giant sequoia, the Pioneer Cabin Tree, fell down :( We also ran into an old boss of mine! Mary Anne from Sequoia National Park has retired from her NPS job and now volunteers at the visitor center at Calaveras! |