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  2. John Muir Trail - Wikipedia

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    The John Muir Trail ( JMT) is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. It is named after John Muir, a naturalist. From the northern terminus at Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley ( 37.7317°N 119.5587°W) and the southern terminus located on the ...

  3. Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    73000418. Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973 [ 1] Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. [ 2]

  4. John Olmsted (naturalist) - Wikipedia

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    John D. Olmsted (March 2, 1938 – March 8, 2011) was a California naturalist and conservationist most famous for creating the Independence Trail in Nevada City, California, as well as helping to save numerous other parcels across California, including Jug Handle State Natural Reserve in Casper, California, Goat Mountain in the Berryessa Snow ...

  5. Independence Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Independence Trail is located approximately 7 miles from downtown Nevada City within the South Yuba River State Park in the Sierra Nevada foothills within Nevada County, in Northern California. The trail is the former Excelsior Ditch, which was found and repaired by John Olmsted and a large group of local volunteers. It is notable for being ...

  6. List of council camps (Boy Scouts of America) - Wikipedia

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    The camp also bordered the 741-acre Al Sabo Preserve, which provides numerous hiking trails. The Boy Scout resident camp was Camp Madron and the Cub Scout resident camp was Camp T. Ben Johnston. Both were named after former camps of the Southwest Michigan Council that were sold in the 1980s.

  7. Portola Redwoods State Park - Wikipedia

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    Portola Redwoods State Park contains approximately 18 miles of hiking trails in the 2,800-acre park, a small car-camping campground of about 50 campsites, four group campsites, and 6 trail sites at Slate Creek Trail Camp. Portola Redwoods State Park is also home to the site of Page shingle Mill, for which Page Mill Road is named.

  8. Donner Lake - Wikipedia

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    Donner Lake. /  39.32278°N 120.26444°W  / 39.32278; -120.26444. Donner Lake, formerly known as Truckee Lake, [ 2] is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake.

  9. Nevada City, California - Wikipedia

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    Nevada City (originally, Ustumah, a Nisenan village; [6] later, Nevada, Deer Creek Dry Diggins, and Caldwell's Upper Store) [7] is the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States, 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Sacramento, 84 miles (135 km) southwest of Reno and 147 miles (237 km) northeast of San Francisco. The population was 3,152 ...

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