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Murphys Ranch Resort Hotels:
 BW Cedar Inn Suites
Angels Inn Motel
Calaveras Vacation Home Rentals
Stay luxurious vacation homes, some located right on the beach. Many feature a peace of history.
Non-Smoking and fully equipped with appliances. Nightly and weekly rates are both available.
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This area was the site of wildly successful placer mining during the great California Gold Rush.
The town was founded by the Murphy Brothers who became more successful as merchants than as miners.
Today it is a popular tourism destination for visiting local historic sites and natural wonders.
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, Murphys Ranch State Historic Park, Calaveras Big Trees State Park and the Bear Valley Ski Resort.
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Viator - Guided VIP Tours for The Calaveras
Guided VIP Tours to area theme parks, wilderness adventures, dinner cruises, nightclubs, aviation and many other exciting adventures.
Calaveras County Fairgrounds - Frogtown
Located near New Melones Lake and Murphys Ranch State Park
These fairgrounds are a full feature event facility situated on 80 acres and includes RV Campground.
Mercer Caverns
P.O. BOX 509, Murphys, CA ; 209-728-2101;
Park Website;
Named for a gold prospector who discovered the caves around 1885 and filed a claim.
The caverns have a large number of speleothems, stalactites, and stalagmites. Under the limestone calcite are a range of aragonite minerals that are pure CaCO3.
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.
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