Tour of Historic Nevada City, CA
We tour this historic mining town, Nevada City, CA.
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A Top Fishing Town in North America - Redding
Redding is home to incredible fishing spots just ask Forbes Magazine! Redding was ranked as one of the top ten fishing towns in North America, the only destination on the West Coast to receive such distinction. Whether you prefer to fish from a boat or get out in the river, Redding offers ountless quality fishing locations, with one of the best spots, the Sacramento River, flowing right through town. Come see for yourself how great the fishing is in Redding and discover an unexpected pleasure.
Welcome to North Yuba, California!
Welcome to the foothills! The North Yuba location offers a variety and abundance of living and recreation options for year round residence or vacation getaways. Explore Historic gold rush sites, streams, mountains, valleys, forests, lush meadows, pristine pastures and backwoods trails. You can hike to your heart's content and pan for gold in secluded streams. Enjoy big sky views and seasonal changes. Many recreational areas have RV and camping sites for boating, fishing, rafting, swimming, snow mobile riding and cross country skiing. Collins Lake, Bullards Bar Lake, Lake Francis, the Yuba River and other tributaries to the Sacramento River are all in the neighborhood. The region also features two award winning wineries open for tours and tastings. You can experience peace and quiet and outdoor adventures without traveling long distances. Real estate prices are still affordable with both bare land and residential properties to choose from. Take a trip to this vibrant, emerging agri-tourism setting where country character and city convenience combine!
Convict Flat Campground Hume California CA - CampgroundViews.com
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Convict Flat Campground near Hume California is a US Forest Service (Sequoia National Forest) Campground popular with travelers to the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park area. provides 5 primitive RV sites in an open setting adjacent to CA 180 between Grant Grove and Cedar Grove areas of the National Park. First come first served with light usage this campground is good for a last chance on busy weekends. Suitable for small and midsize RVs and camp trailers. Vault toilets. Convenient to Boyden Cavern.
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Baja California Travel
Baja California Travel - Baja California is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 71,576 km2 (27,636 sq mi), or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California.
The state has a population of 2,844,469 (2005 census), and estimated 3,165,776 (June 2009) much more than the sparsely populated Baja California Sur to the south, and similar to San Diego County on its north. Over 75% of the population lives in the capital city, Mexicali, Ensenada, or in Tijuana. Other important cities include San Felipe, Playas de Rosarito and Tecate. The population of the state is composed of Mestizos, mostly immigrants from other parts of Mexico, and, as with most northern Mexican states, a large population of Mexicans of European ancestry, and also a large minority group of East Asian, Middle Eastern and indigenous descent. Additionally, there is a large immigrant population from the United States due to its proximity to San Diego and the cheaper cost of living compared to San Diego. There is also a significant population from Central America. Many immigrants moved to Baja California for a better quality of life and the number of higher paying jobs in comparison to the rest of Mexico and Latin America.
Baja California is the twelfth largest state by area in Mexico. Its geography ranges from beaches to forests and deserts. The backbone of the state is the Sierra de Baja California, where the Picacho del Diablo, the highest point of the peninsula, is located. This mountain range effectively divides the weather patterns in the state. In the northwest, the weather is semi-dry and mediterranean. In the narrow center, the weather changes to be more humid due to altitude. It is in this area where a few valleys can be found, such as the Valle de Guadalupe, the major wine producer area in Mexico. To the east of the mountain range, the Sonoran Desert dominates the landscape. In the south, the weather becomes drier and gives place to the Vizcaino Desert. The state is also home to numerous islands off both of its shores. In fact, the westernmost point in Mexico, the Guadalupe Island, is part of Baja California. The Coronado, Todos Santos and Cedros Islands are also on the Pacific Shore. On the Gulf of California, the biggest island is the Angel de la Guarda, separated from the peninsula by the deep and narrow Canal de Ballenas. ( source Wikipedia )
Enjoy Your Baja California Travel!
Bikefest - 2016 - Motorcycle Rally, Bikes, Bikers, Babes and Party
Leesburg Bike Fest 2016 It's all happening here. Motorcycle Rally
Roberts Ridge Report™, Independence Trail, Nevada County, California, Hiking, West Bound 3 of 3
Roberts Ridge Report™, Independence Trail, Nevada County, California, Hiking, West Bound 3 of 3
Sturgis of the Off Road Kingdom on Thanksgiving is Randsburg
in southern California when as many as 2,000 to 10,000 to 20,000 people camp out in cottages and circle up in RV Round-Ups stretching for thirty miles from Randsburg to Johannesburg along US 395 south to California City, east of Mojave, 2-1/2 hours east of a totally different culture in Los Angeles. Off Roaders, Dirt Bikers and 4 Wheelers, love the basin and range with salt flats and endless twist and turn in the higher elevations of sagebrush hills and desert mountains in the warm southern California chaparral.
On the high end of Main Street in the Living Ghost Town of Randsburg only local artists show in the Randsburg Art Gallery. Randsburg resident population is not 70, not 50, but recently down to 48 people in the heart of this mountain side enclave of Bohemians living on the cool north slope.
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Great views extend over mountain ranges Rand, El Paso and southern end of the Sierras to the northwest layering fifty miles deep into the Sierras at the far north of the Owens Valley greatly valued by many Wild West Hollywood movie directors including backgrounds for John Wayne films.
From the wide balcony of the Cottage Hotel at the high end of town, the northeast view looks over the tops of three mountain ranges advancing into lost desert basin and range, layering in greys from light to dark hiding mysteries of pioneers and prospectors of the Audacious Generation struggling against the Wild West impelled by burning visions inspired by travel guides and drawings of the 1850s overland journals telling wild stories of the greatest migration of people in the history of the world. Some of them pared off on the dry eastern drainage of the Sierras. People such as Seldom Seen Slim and desert homesteaders like the prior generations of Scrappy, manager of the Cottage Hotel, happy to be in the area all her life.
Indigo evenings at the high end of Main Street on the North Porch of Goat Sky Ranch Bed, Breakfast & BBQ BYO see both of the two different northwest and northeast mountain vistas in hues of deepening blue and gray. One hundred feet lower on the north end of Main Street, a photographer in the foot steps of Ansel Adams has captured those moments of light on display in his gallery near the General Store with early 1900s phosphate soda fountain for floats, sundaes and a whole lot more. On the the other side is a local lounge and across the street the Old West White House Saloon in white paint and corrugated metal roof, desert oxide gray, decades old but not rusted.
Antique phosphate sodas are thankfully not as sweet as many soda pops today.
Bring ribs, chicken, hamburger, hot dogs, corn and/or steak to work either of two great BBQ grilles at your own pace for lunch or dinner, either at the Mountain View North Porch or the organic desert picnic garden with views to the eastern hillside where dwell dark aged wood ruins of many historic mining works and mill buildings several hundred yards away. [Hazardous - Stay Away]. The eclectic desert garden BBQ is adjacent to the large hot tub building for guests of the Cottage Hotel.
In the Randsburg Art Gallery a hand painted map of southern California high desert depicts the highest elevation in the continental USA - Mount Whitney 14,495 feet above sea level in the Sequoia National Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains and a moderate distance to the east-southeast the lowest point in the United States - Death Valley at 282 feet BELOW sea level, too hot and too dry in the summer. In between are military reservations of Fort Irwin desert warfare and armored tank training center, China Lake Naval Weapons Center and Edwards Air Force Base. The map is a fresco 10 foot square. Off map to the northeast in southern Nevada is Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range and off map to the south is experimental military aircraft development center - Skunk Works, famous since the 1950s with the X-1 to Right Stuff coming together in the X-15.
First Bank of Randsburg was open for six months then failed. Randall Hoot Smith is now the pleasant owner.
Erma Maw - Choctaw Indian Artist.
Scene from Darwin, mining ghost town in southern California. Artist uses as many as thirty layers of paint, many layers use translucent paint.
Randsburg centrally located for hiking in the Sierras of southern Tulare County and eastern Kern County, and also other marvels of the Mojave Desert in southern Inyo County.
Randsburg Cottage Hotel Bed and Breakfast and Cabin Rentals.
130 Butte Avenue PO Box 104 Randsburg, CA 93554 760-374-2285
has many guests from other countries staying a Weekend or a Week!
Randsburg is about 1200 feet above the much hotter desert floor, hence it is good for overnight stays before heading to Death Valley National Monument or other areas in the Mojave Desert. Only three hours from Los Angeles, Randsburg is also due east of the southern tip of the Sierra.