Reviews

Ram Dongre

This park is a site of California’s largest hydraulic mining during 1850s. The town North Bloomfield was established for the settlers who used recently discovered hydraulic mining method to extract gold from the hills while the riverbeds were already mined. This new mining method while profitable led to severe blockages in rivers due to pilings being accumulated in the riverbeds which led to a legislation banning this kind of mining. Very interesting part of the history indeed! The park has couple building representing old retail stores, drug store, barber shop, saloon and a museum. A trail across the park takes you to the digging site which is drivable too. Entry fee is $10 per car. Kids can enjoy the gold panning and the park staff are friendly and engaging!

Elizabeth Zima

I hiked the Humbug trail about 3 miles. The trail starts out looking well groomed but the trail declines at about 1 mile and the number of downed trees and trail cave-ins makes it difficult for a hiker. It is still a beautiful trail with the Humbug creek roaring below. Just before 2 miles I turned around because of downed trees and a weed-chocked trail.

Theodore Smith

Great place to visit. A nice quiet little area in the hills with history. They do a tour at 130 which is free. They offer camp sites and cabins.

Arnold Lira

Pretty nice place to go camping. Didn't get to explore the trails, so I can't comment on that but overall good spot. The only negatives is that some sites are very close together (like many other camp sites) and many have little to no shade (spot 19, were I stayed!). I took some pictures of some of the better sites, the pictures on Reserve.CA are not that good

Mina Mansuetti

Great school field trip with my 2 great grandchildren!

floyd korhummel

Went late April. Still not quite "open" except for the weekends. We went on a Thursday. Still, it was very nice and very few people. It was open, but no guides etc. stayed in Nevada City. Check out the website

Jorge Aleman

This State Historic Park is amazing. The museum is well taken care of. Small and rustic but it shows in detail how life was in the 1800s to 1900s in this area. Adela, the Park Ranger at the museum was very friendly and is a great source of information for the Malakoff Diggins Museum. She warned us about bears and sure enough, on the way out of the hiking area, I saw a black bear down a small stream. It ran down the creek and away from us when it saw us. We took off in the opposite direction.

Erik Vogel

Take a weekend to get to know the history of the town of Humbug and the historical significance of the Malakoff Diggins. We're going to be making this wonderful place a regular stop on our road adventures.

bartellj

The history here is pretty amazing! It really shows you the distraction that mining had on the landscape. It’s really fun to go see the old town of humbug. The museum was fun to walk through. The trail that takes you down to the Diggins is really well-maintained I’m pretty sure you could even take someone in a wheelchair. The park has a lot of charm and it was worth the drive.