Arnold (pop: 4200) opened in 1927 as the Ebbetts Pass Inn that served as a stop for people traveling along the Ebbetts Pass route as well as lodging for those visiting nearby Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
Previously the town consisted of just two logging ranches.
In 1928, Camp Wolfeboro was established nearby as a Boy Scout camp and continues to be in operation today.
Nearby activities include golf, skiing, whitewater rafting, boating, fishing, horseback riding and hiking.
Take a short drive to the Moaning Caverns and Mercer Caverns, both offering guided tours and gold panning.
Other nearby attractions include Angels Camp Museum, Columbia State Historic Park, Calaveras Big Trees State Park and the Bear Valley Ski Resort.
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Calaveras County Fairgrounds - Frogtown
Located near New Melones Lake and Columbia State Park
These fairgrounds are a full feature event facility situated on 80 acres and includes RV Campground.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Arnold, CA 95223
Park Website;
Located 4 miles east of Arnold on Highway SR-4;
Calaveras became a State Park in 1931 to preserve the North Grove of giant sequoias.
This grove includes Discovery Tree, the first giant sierra redwood noted by Augustus T. Dowd in 1852.
Since that discovery, this area has become one of California's popular tourism attractions.
The Park also houses two main campgrounds, picnic areas and hundreds of miles of established trails.
Popular activities include cross-country skiing, hiking, mountain biking and bird-watching.
South Grove - a five mile hiking trip through a spectacular grove of giant sequoias.
Stanislaus River Trail -
Beaver Creek -
Lava Bluff Trail
Bradley Trail.
[ California Forests ]
Camp Wolfeboro [MDSC]
BSA High Sierra Wilderness Camp
Bear Valley, CA; Camp Website;
Camp Wolfeboro (founded in 1928) is a BSA Summer Camp ideally located in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains on the shores of the Stanislaus River near Bear Valley CA.
Currently, Camp Wolfeboro is used for 8 weeks each summer as a regular accredited BSA summer camp where it is host to as many as 500 Scouts per week,
with a total summer attendance of more than 1,600 Scouts. Since 2005, the camp has also run an approximately six-week Fall Camp program designed for individual Scout troops
and Venturing crews to use the property for rock-climbing, waterfront activities, and shooting sports. The fall program immediately follows the end of the regular 8-week summer season.
Camp Wolfeboro was founded by the Berkeley Council in 1928 in the area known as Hell's Kitchen, across the river from a family-oriented camp, Camp Baxter.
Aquatic activities take place along the Stanislaus River waterfront and include swimming, canoeing and rowing.
Other facilities including target shooting ranges, nature study, scoutcraft and a number of hiking trails.
Special programs include the three day Summit Wilderness Trek, a great backpacking adventure for older scouts.
[ Mt Diablo Silverado BSA Council ]
Kennedy Gold Mine Tours - Jackson CA
The Kennedy Mine, famous for being one of the deepest gold mines in the world (at 5912 feet), demonstrates how gold changed an entire way of life in California.
On the Kennedy Gold Mine surface tour, visitors see the mine office building where gold flakes were melted into large bricks to ship by Wells Fargo to San Francisco.
