Zentralkalifornien Culture and Sights

Just north of Yosemite Valley kurvt Highway 120 up into the High Sierra. This is the land of emerald green lakes, meadows and High Rock. The most beautiful, Tuolumne Meadows, is the starting point Hik...

Of the almost 1000 m above the valley of the underlying rock slides overlooking hilltops, waterfalls and deserted back-country of the High Sierra. Later, back at the star gazers: The night sky above t...

This 11 km long valley on the Merced River is the heart and main attraction of the park. It attracts 95 percent of the visitors and, thanks also to hotels, restaurants and campsites, in the summer of ...

The largest, the General Sherman Tree in Giant Forest, is 2500 years old, has a circumference of 34 m and reaching 90 m height, the height of a 27-storey building. The General Grant Tree in Grant Grov...

Often small towns quickly died off as soon as rumors of new gold discoveries arose. Among the still very well preserved places include the old mining town of Columbia, and Sutter Creek. Placerville, 6...

Sacramento was the western terminus of the continental telegraph line and the station coming from the east of the railway. By this time the pioneers demonstrates the museum, one of the largest of its ...

The visit to the oldest museum in the West is worthwhile only because of its beautiful old buildings. In addition to European, Asian and Californian art shows to see on the gold rush. Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun...

Reconstructed Fort with a fascinating history: 1839 founded the Swiss immigrant Johann Sutter, the settlement "New Helvetia". Ten years later, his foreman Marshall discovered the gold of the Sierra Ne...

The small town on the eastern shore of the Sacramento River gives a little flair from the gold rush days. Nostalgic shops, museums, historical places, founded 1849, the Old Eagle Theater and more than...