Visitors to California tend to follow the Pacific Coast Highway, but those who detour onto its historic Highway 49 will find rich rewards 🖋️ Ellie Seymour
who founded it, the characterful big town is a good base for exploring the county’s history. After a hearty $18 tri-tip beef sandwich and fries at Standard Pour, a popular restaurant in an old lumberjack office, I couldn’t resist the neon cocktail glass in the window of Zane Iron Horse Lounge. Inside the atmospherically dark dive bar, a punchy margarita set me back a reasonable $7 .
A few miles away, in small, chintzy historic Jamestown, I was able to wander around film locations for, to name a few. I ducked inside thealmost unchanged since its heyday. In the saloon, with its mahogany bar and original tin ceiling, landlady Edy Lee Bouza told me: “There’s a goldmine underneath the hotel, which we have rights to, but it’s cemented in at the moment.”
A mile or so off Highway 49 just outside Sonora is the picture-perfect living goldrush town of Columbia. Here, at family-ownedand Hidden Treasure Gold Mine, I had a go at gold panning. It was trickier than I thought it would be. “Hold your pan with two hands, fill it with sand, shake, then wash it in the water,” explained my teacher in historical garb. He made it sound easy.
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