点评:Nice place. Historic. Informative. Great for families. $12 entry. Near Placerville, about a 15 minute drive up a hill through a residential area.
The site consists of a real gold mine shaft visitors can tour with an audio you download to your phone. The tour lasts about 30 min and leads into the cold, well-lit mine shaft. It explains the features of the mine, the mining process, and the dangers of mining, including how explosives were used. The mine dead ends about 150ft later and visitors turn around and walk back to the entrance. I'd recommend visiting during the week to avoid large crowds.
I spent about 2 hours here on a Thursday afternoon in October, and during that time, I saw maybe 8 other visitors. In the museum, visitors can pay $12 to tour the mine and park. Visitors are required to wear the provided hard hat inside the mine. I believe the park is open daily from 10am to 4pm.
The museum is small, but contained nice displays and informative signs. Just outside the museum and mine are two long troughs with water and gravel for visitors who wish to learn how to pan for gold.
Visitors can drive 1 mile up the paved road to the stamp mill and blacksmith shops for live explanations and demonstrations by volunteers. Definitely worth the stop.
There is also a nature trail which leads around the large park and to the Priest Mine entrance, which is only accessible with a reservation for a guided group tour.
翻译:好地方。历史性。信息丰富。非常适合家庭。入场费 12 美元。靠近普莱瑟维尔 (Placerville),开车约 15 分钟穿过住宅区上山。
该网站由一个真正的金矿井组成,游客可以通过下载到手机的音频进行游览。游览持续约 30 分钟,进入寒冷、光线充足的矿井。它解释了矿山的特点、采矿过程以及采矿的危险,包括如何使用炸药。大约 150 英尺后,矿井出现了尽头,游客转身走回入口。我建议在一周内参观以避免大量人群。
10 月份的一个星期四下午,我在这里待了大约 2 个小时,在那段时间里,我看到了大约 8 个其他游客。在博物馆里,游客可以支付 12 美元参观矿山和公园。游客在矿井内必须佩戴提供的安全帽。我相信公园每天上午 10 点至下午 4 点开放。
博物馆很小,但有漂亮的展示和信息丰富的标志。博物馆和矿井外面有两个长水槽,里面有水和砾石,供那些想要学习如何淘金的游客使用。
游客可以沿着铺好的道路行驶 1 英里到达印章厂和铁匠铺,观看志愿者的现场讲解和演示。绝对值得停下来。
还有一条自然小径,环绕着大公园并通往牧师矿入口,只有预订导游团才能进入。