Once a thriving gold rush town, this unique destination is now a relic of California's past, with hikes to storied canyons ...

In 1851, a gold prospector sat in a saloon in Nevada City, roughly 50 miles west of Lake Tahoe. He slowly began trading the newly acquired cash in his pocket for drink after drink, and before ...

Malakoff Diggins is one of California's lesser known state parks. The park was created in 1965 to preserve the controversial story of our country's largest hydraulic gold mine which devastated the ...

It was the afternoon of our visit Aug. 31 to Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, a real Gold Rush-era operation that made history because in its heyday had been the largest hydraulic mining site ...

2 Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park This site, abandoned after hydraulic gold mining in the mid-1800s fouled streams with mud and debris, is located 26 miles northeast of Nevada City.

These dreamers developed the largest hydraulic gold mine of the day, and ... The Friends of North Bloomfield and Malakoff Diggins sponsors the event, held in September on the anniversary of the fall ...

Empire Mine, Malakoff Diggins and South Yuba state parks are three sprawling landmarks found in Nevada County. Together, they attract around 300,000 visitors each year, including many children on ...

CALIFORNIA (KTXL) — California’s Gold Rush is known for making many people rich and inflating the population of the then-young state, but it also resulted in the creation of the nation’s ...

During the gold rush in California in the second half of the 19 th century, Malakoff Diggins was the biggest hydraulic mine in the world. Operated by the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company ...