Books for Sacramento Valley, American River, Sacramento River, Gold Country, Western Sierra Nevada, California
Sacramento River Valley & Sierra Foothills
Gold Country Maps for the Western Sierra foothills, parks, forests, river canyons, fishing, camping, hiking, from Yosemite to the Sierra Buttes. The famous Gold Rush Country in California has historic buildings, mines, roads, and dams. The foothills region is home to numerous big river canyons, which is also the central focus of the historic mining activity.
California Mining Rivers:
Feather River
Yuba River
American River
Cosumnes River
Mokelumne River
Stanislaus River
Tuolumne River
Merced River
Of the approximate 300,000 people who came to California during the Gold Rush, about half arrived by sea and half came overland. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the gold rush attracted thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China.
Agriculture and ranching expanded throughout the state to meet the needs of the settlers. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852. In 1849 a state constitution was written. In September 1850, California became a state.
At the beginning of the Gold Rush, there was no law regarding property rights in the goldfields and a system of “staking claims” was developed. Prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning.
Hydraulic mining, a system where miners literally blast the hills and the forested slopes with giant water canons, was so damaging that the first environmental laws in California were passed to prevent it.
Tahoe Maps / Lake Tahoe California
USGS map California: Tahoe Map. Lake Tahoe Camping. Sierra Nevada Lakes, Sierra Mountains
Tahoe Maps. Quality USDA maps created for the National Forest Service. Tahoe California Map. Tahoe Area Map. Northern Sierra, Sierraville, Truckee, Stampede Reservoir, Granite Chief Wilderness
GPS: Longitude & Latitude; Rivers, Creeks, Peaks, Elevations, 4WD & every dirt BackRoad, Hot Springs, Equestrian Areas, all Campgrounds, Hiking Trails & BackPacking Trailheads. WATERPROOF MAP. Ranger Map – NFS issued map. ISBN# 9781593514419
Areas include: Northern Sierra, Sierraville, Truckee, Stampede Reservoir, Granite Chief Wilderness, North Lake Tahoe, Hell Hole Reservoir, French Meadows Reservoir, Sugar Pine Reservoir, Donner Lake, Jackson Meadow Reservoir, Bowman Lake, New Bullards Reservoir, Downieville, Highway 49, Gold Country.
Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains: Tahoe National Forest
North Bloomfield, Malakoff Diggins
Rivers in this Region:
Wilderness Areas nearby:
Desolation Wilderness
Granite Chief Wilderness
Mount Rose Wilderness
Camping & Hiking Lakes in the North Sierra:
nearby towns:
find more Tahoe maps –
Lake Tahoe Basin Atlas
4×4 Guide Tahoe NF
Sierra Buttes Map
South Yuba River Map
Lake Basin Map