Plumas-Eureka State Park
Shasta Cascade
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 4424
- Established
- 1959
parks detail
- Hook
- A hard-rock mining museum and Gold Lakes-basin trailheads below Eureka Peak, where miners raced longboards in winter
- More
- Eureka Peak's miners strapped on twelve-foot longboards in the 1860s and raced them downhill — arguably the birthplace of North American ski racing. The restored Mohawk Stamp Mill and museum interpret the hard-rock era; Jamison Creek trails lead into the Lakes Basin.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.756, -120.7