foothills hotel recommendation?

January 26, 2006 10:00 AM

Please recommend an interesting hotel or B&B in the Angels Camp / Murphys, California area. Also looking for things to do in the area after exploring Moaning Caverns. Other caves? Hot springs?
posted by luriete to travel & transportation (5 comments total)

Big Trees is a very nice state park near there with giant redwoods (best known for the stump that they used to throw dance parties on).
posted by designbot at 10:17 AM on January 26, 2006

Columbia State Historic Park is probably an hour away - a preserved Gold Rush town with an old cemetary, one-room schoolhouse, barber shop (ask to see the finger of Three-Fingered Jack), a Wells Fargo office and stagecoach, museums and lots of touristy shops. It even has WiFi! I loved it when I was a kid.
posted by DandyRandy at 11:46 AM on January 26, 2006

Downtown Murphys is pleasant in a should-be-overtouristed-but-isn't way. It's kind of historic, off the beaten path, generally nice. Going rihgt now might be pretty cold, though it's below the snow line. If you like wine-tasting, Ironstone Vineyards is nice...the tasting room is carved out of a hillside cave.
posted by kittyprecious at 12:46 PM on January 26, 2006

(Nice things are nice.)

Also, in Angels Camp you'll probably find a lot of Mark Twain memorabilia, due to his story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." If you're into that sort of thing.
posted by kittyprecious at 12:49 PM on January 26, 2006

This may help you with that hotsprings
posted by hortense at 11:00 PM on January 26, 2006