Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
Gold Country & Central Valley
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 135
- Established
- 1962
parks detail
- Hook
- A marbled limestone outcrop bearing 1,185 mortar cups and a reconstructed Miwok roundhouse
- More
- Chaw'se — the grinding rock — carries 1,185 mortars and hundreds of petroglyphs, the largest such collection in North America, and the roundhouse hosts the annual Big Time gathering. The Miwok bark-house village and regional museum are rebuilt with tribal guidance; the environmental campsites book far out.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.425, -120.642