El Dorado Mine

To find gold veins beneath the surface tunnels were dug and ore was brought out and crushed at the stamp mill. This was an example of hard rock mining. In 1885, William Paul found gold near the present El Dorado ...

Tenant House and Barn

As the Camden family spent less and less time on the banks of Clear Creek, they realized the need for a caretaker. By 1868, Camden spent winters in Oakland so the girls could go to school. Not only did the ...

Toll Bridge

In 1865, Charles Camden built a covered bridge at Whiskey Creek, improved roads from Old Shasta to Clear Creek, built a bridge at Whiskey Creek, and improved and covered the bridge over Clear Creek. Camden charged ten cents to walk ...

Tower House Hotel

Across the footbridge past the Camden House, towards Hwy 299, is approximately where the Tower House Hotel stood. However, nothing remains of the hotel due to a fire in 1919.

In 1852, Levi Tower bought the property for $575 and built ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Rock Art of Alta

This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding of the environment and human ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Churches and Convents of Goa

The churches and convents of Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Indies – particularly the Church of Bom Jesus, which contains the tomb of St Francis-Xavier – illustrate the evangelization of Asia. These monuments were influential in spreading forms ...

Taft / Hiawatha Trail

NOTICE: Access to this site may be via narrow dirt or gravel roads with few turnarounds.

Taft was riotously proud of its well-earned reputation as “one of the wildest towns of the west.” Known far and wide as “the wickedest ...

Superior Vista Trail

Born of gold strikes, buoyed by the timber industry, and situated along a prominent transportation corridor, Superior is a town with a rich history and abundant natural resources. One of the best places to take it all in is on ...

The Superior Ranger District

In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt created the Lolo Forest Reserve and tasked the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with overseeing and managing the vast expanse. Each ranger oversaw somewhere between a half million and a million acres of forest land. Given such ...

Superior Hotel

Though historical sources vary as to the details, all agree that the Superior Hotel was the first establishment in the world where Gideons placed Bibles in hotel rooms. Some credit the proprietor, Edna Wilkinson, with writing to the Gideons and ...