Restaurants

Papa's New Roost
Cynthia & Steve Zelinsky
20049 Highway 108 • Sonora 536-0100 American
Cafe
Mon-Fri: 6 am-2:30 pm
Sat: 7:30 am-2:30 pm
Sun: 7:30 am-2:30 pm

Seven Sisters
Black Oak Casino
19400 Tuolumne Rd. North • Tuolumne 1-877-747-8777 Contemporary
Restaurant

Twain Harte Golf Club
Twain Harte 586-3131

Washington Street Steak House
Mike & Shirley Sarno
275 So. Washington • Sonora 532-2111 Steakhouse

Wineries

COSTELLO'S MOUNTAIN BROW WINERY & VINEYARDS

(209) 532-1261 10850 Mt. Brow Road
Sonora , CA 95370
Mail: P.O. Box 220
Columbia , CA 95310 www.MtBrowWinery.com
JimCos@Mlode.com

     Costello's Mountain Brow Winery and Vineyard is familiy-owned and operated. The grape varietals grown are Sangiovese, Merlot, and Zinfandal. The winery will be in production in 2003 with the first release of fine wine scheduled for January 2005.

IRONSTONE VINEYARDS

(209) 728-1251 1894 Six Mile Road
Murphys, CA 95247
www.IronstoneVineyards.com

    Complimentary tours include an art gallery, lakeside park, aging caverns, wine production, landscaped gardens, amphitheatre restored Alhambra Theatre pipe organ, and Museum with a 44-pound crystalline gold leaf specimen. Complimentary wine tastings, gourmet deli, and fine gifts. Open 10-5 daily. Call for event information.

CALAVERAS WINE ASSOCIATION

(209) 736-6722
(800) 225-3764, x25 P.O. Box 2492
Murphys, CA 95247 www.CalverasWines.org

     Located in the Sierra Foothills Gold Rush Country of California . Just a short 30-minute drive from Sonora , the 11 unique Calaveras wineries offer a casual, unhurried pace and step back in time. Calaveras County wines continue a century-old tradition of award-winning merit.

MUIR-HANNA VINEYARDS

(209) 532-WINE 36 S. Washington
Sonora , CA 95370 www.Muir-Hanna.com
MuirHanna@SBCglobal.net

     Tasting room featuring wines from Muir-Hanna, a Napa Estate owned by the descendants of John Muir. Photographs from the Muir archives and staffers knowledgeable in both Muirana and oenology make this a hit with historians and wine fans alike!

TWISTED OAK WINERY

(209) 736-9080
( 209) 736-8068 4280 Red Hill Road
Vallecito , CA 95251 www.TwistedOak.com

     Twisted Oak Winery is just across the river, a few miles north of Columbia State Historic Park , and features wines like Syrah, Tempranillo, and Viognier. They have a tasting room at the winery open every day, and on Main Street in Murphys open Thursday thru Sunday.

Tours

HIDDEN TREASURE GOLD MINE TOURS &
MATELOT GULCH MINE SUPPLY

(209) 532-9693 Main Street
P.O. Box 28
Columbia , CA 95310 NO WEB | EMAIL
AT THIS TIME

    Take a tour through a real working hardrock gold mine, still producing gold today! We also teach gold panning, beginners and children our specialty. Mining relics and gold for sale. Spring and summer; 10 - 5 daily. Call for winter schedule.

PEPPERMINT CREEK CARRIAGE CO.

(209) 533-2599
Toll Free: (800) 555-1147   www.PeppermintCreekCarriage.com
Eves@Sonnet.com

    Many styles of carriages and wagons elegantly drawn by beautiful and powerful Belgian Draft horses. Gold Rush carriage tours are ½-hour interpretive tour of Sonora - an 1849 California Gold Rush town. Educational field trips at historic Knights Ferry in the spring and fall. Enjoy December evenings with Victorian Christmas carriage rides through Columbia Historic State Park .

SIERRA RAILROAD DINNER TRAIN

(800) 866-1690
Fax: (209) 848-8595 220 So. Sierra Ave.
Oakdale , CA 95361
www.SierraRailroad.com
www.YSLRR.com

     Sierra Railroad offers first class dinner trips, brunches, murder mysteries, wild west shows, dance trips, rail & raft trips, and Christmas trips. Labor Day Weekend feastures the Iron Horse Round-up railroad festival. Trips board in Oakdale every weekend throughout the year. Now Sierra Railroad includes the Yolo Shortline (YSLRR) also known as the Wildberry Express!

YOSEMITE MOUNTAIN SUGAR PINE RAILROAD

(559) 683-7273>
Fax: ( 559) 683-8307 56001 Yosemite Hwy. 41
Fish Camp, CA 93623 www.YMSPRR.com

    Narrow gauge steam train near Yosemite National Park recreates an era of California 's colorful past on an excursion through the Sierra National Forest . Moonlite specials, outdoor meloramas, Thornberry Museum, Sugar Pine Trading Company Bookstore, Station Gift Shop, Gold Panning, and food service.

National Parks

COLUMBIA STATE HISTORIC PARK

(209) 532-0150
Fax: ( 209) 532-5064 22708 Broadway St.
Columbia , CA 95310 www.parks.ca.gov
Calaveras@Goldrush.com

    Best Preserved gold rush town in the Mother Lode. Gold was discovered in Columbia on March 27, 1860 by a small party of prospectors. By 1980, the Gem of the Southern Mines produced more than $1 billion (in today's money). Today, the town still bustles with shops, exhibits, and the lively activity of the 1850s. . .Open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

RAILTOWN 1897 STATE HISTORIC PARK

(209) 984-3953
Fax: ( 209) 984-4936 5th Avenue & Reservoir Road
P.O. Box 1250
Jamestown , CA 95327
www.Railtown1897.org
Railtown@Mlode.com

    Seasonal steam train rides and year-round Round House tours! Operated by the California State Railroad Museum , this 26-acre steam locomotive facility offers excursioin train rides every Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., April through November. Guided tours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. Call for fares and special excursions, and events.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

Info & Roads:
(209) 372-0200
Lodging:
(559) 252-4848
Camping:
( 800) 436-7275 P.O. Box 577
Yosemite , CA 95389 www.nps.gov/yose

    Highway 120 offers the shortest route into Yosemite National Park from the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento . Yosemite Valley is open year-round and the beautiful Tioga Pass over the summit is usually open June through October or November (depending on the snowfall). Yosemite Valley is inernationally known for its spectacular vistas, waterfalls, giant Redwood trees, and pristine wilderness areas. 

Other Stuff

Black Oak Casino
www.blackoakcasino.com
19400 Tuolumne Road North, Tuolumne
info@blackoakcasino.com Susan Day
(209) 928-9314
Fax: (209) 928-9301
Proudly owned and operated by the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, The All New Black Oak Casino has almost 1,000 Slots, 24 Table Games, Live Entertainment at the Willow Creek Lounge, Seven Sisters Specialty Dining, Black Oak Cafe, a Non-Smoking Slot Area, a 24 Lane Brunswick Bowling Center with the Underground Arcade, The Mill Sports Bar and Kingpins Family Dining. There is something for everything at The All New Black Oak Casino!!!

Twain Harte Golf Club
22909 Meadow Drive, Twain Harte
Michael White
(209) 586-3131
Fax: (209) 586-2637

Twain Harte Miniature Golf
www.yosemitegold.com/thgolf
23098 Fuller Road, Twain Harte
thminigolf@juno.com Richard & Marilyn Knudson
(209) 586-5569
Fax: (209) 586-6338

Area Activities
Name your pleasure. Is it swimming, sailing, golf, tennis, horseback riding, rock climbing, fishing, skiing, skating, spelunking, biking, hiking - or hammock swinging? Antiqueing, history hunting, wine-tasting, theater or art gallery browsing? Located in the heart of the Mother Lode, Twain Harte has all this and more right in our backyard. Head up the hill for world class high country adventures, down to Sonora, Jamestown, Columbia and Murphys for exceptional art, history, wine and entertainment or take the short drive to Yosemite National Park for a visit to one of the most spectacular corners of the world.