Roaring Camp 3rd Annual SRGD Club Outing Organized by Randy Richie!
When: Sunday July 13th, 2014
Directions Vets Hall to Roaring Camp
Time: 9:45a Arrive in Pine Grove
Price: $36.00 per person
Who: Roaring Camp is fun for all ages! Everyone is welcome.
What to Bring:
Bring your prospecting equipment! Buckets, shovels, classifiers sluice box etc… Bring lots of water and some food too! Roaring camp has a place where you can buy food but you can also bring your sack lunch and other snacks. You can buy gold! Roaring Camp sells bags with gold to bring home, as well as gold nuggets collected from the mine, bring money if you are in the market for some gold.
Outing Information:
Roaring Camp is approximately 3 hours away from the Santa Rosa Veterans Hall. Please be sure to arrive at the Roaring Camp Office in Pine Grove, no later than 10a. Be sure to leave Santa Rosa in time, to make it to Pine Grove. Once you arrive at camp, you will need to register at the small office.
From there, we will caravan to a parking location as a group. When we get to the parking location, grab your gear and anything you will need for the day because once at camp you will not be able to go back to your car. We then load up and down we go!
Roaring Camp Information:
Roaring Camp is something special in the way of family recreation. It is an old goldmining camp on the Mokulmne River. In the past, it was accessible only by horseback. Roaring Camp was once a camp for Forty Niners, but since it was so inaccessible, most of the gold still remains. Visitors can see our operating gold mine an can mine their own gold by panning, sluicing, dredging, and dry washing.
In the Mokulumne Canyon, the three forks of the Mokelumne River come together. It is a river unsurpassed in natural beauty. The water is so clear that one can watch the tadpoles and fish swim. There are waterfalls and natural rock formations forty feet high.
There is also a quiet, secluded “swimming hole” with rocks of varying sizes, ideal for diving by those who dare!
Enjoy an ALL-DAY ADVENTURE into the Mokelumne River Canyon. We take you into the beautiful remote Mokulmne Canyon, once mined by the 49ers and still being mined today. See our Placer Gold Mine Operation, our Wildlife and Mining Artifacts Museums, the ruins of the past, pan for gold, collect rocks, fish, hike and enjoy river swimming in nature’s most beautiful swimming hole. Enjoy lunch in our Trading Post or bring a picnic lunch. Great for school field trips, birthday parties, company outings, etc. Tours go Sunday – Friday check in time 10:00am.