Sutter's Fort State Historic Park
Gold Country & Central Valley
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 5.8
- Established
- 1914
parks detail
- Hook
- John Sutter's reconstructed 1839 adobe fort, the destination of the overland emigrants
- More
- The rebuilt fort preserves the original 1841 central building where Sutter's empire briefly flourished before the Gold Rush he enabled swept it away — and where Donner Party survivors were brought in 1847. Living-history days fire the cannon and the bake ovens.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.572, -121.471