Thrills, Chills and Tommyknockers! Is it true our gold mines haunted? Got the guts to find out? Don’t miss our 2nd annual spook-house thriller the weekend before Halloween (October 28 and 29) where both the Gold Bug and Priest mines come alive with some extremely frightening ghosts, ghouls and Tommyknockers. There will be fun games,Read more about Thrills Chills and Tommyknockers – October 28-29[…]

  OUR SECOND EDITION In an effort to keep our Hangtown’s Gold Bug Park Development Committee members, park employees and friends in the “know”, we have established our park newsletter. The newsletter is a quarterly publication. Get the full newsletter here.

For the health and safety of our volunteers and guests we will limit Saturday’s Priest Mine tours to just 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The National Weather Service has issued  an “excessive heat watch”  from  Thursday afternoon through the entire Labor Day weekend.  There will be several back-to-back days of triple-digit temps and very little heat relief in the evening. It is advisedRead more about Heat Watch Affects Priest Mine Tours[…]

Take a Walk Into Gold Rush History! SATURDAY ONLY! – Sept. 2nd – 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  This is a rare opportunity to explore the seldom seen Priest Mine here at Gold Bug Park. It was hand dug at the peak of California’s Gold Rush and provides a unique and close up experience withRead more about Priest Mine Tours, Labor Day Weekend Only![…]