A grand and pleasingly old-fashioned place with an impressive galleried frontage and pretty decent food in the restaurant, plus characterful creaky floorboards and a stuck-in-time saloon bar. Get a room on the street side for a view of the picturesque little hillside town of Mokelumne Hill.
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The somewhat undiscovered settlement of Mokelumne Hill is 7 miles south of Jackson just off Hwy 49. Settled by French trappers in the early 1840s, it’s a…
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You can't miss the ominous steel headframe of the mine from the road, rising to 125ft. Its pulleys lifted ore and miners from the bowels of the earth…
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