The gold rush town of Angel Camp, founded in 1848, was the setting for Mark Twain’s short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". The story launched Twain’s writing career and the city celebrates this little piece of history every year in May with the Jumping Frog Jubilee.
The museum is housed in three buildings. The first floor of the first building is dedicated to Twain. The second building has carriages and wagons and the last has gold mining and farming equipment. The museum buildings are completely accessible except for the gold mining building which has a paved path down the middle and loose gravel on the sides which is impossible to push a wheelchair through so some of the exhibits can not be viewed. The gold panning is not accessible and the dirt path to view large mining equipment is not accessible.
This is a nicely done little museum but unfortunately parking is very limited. We barely fit our little 25’ motorhome into the lot of the first building. Also even though all of the buildings are accessible they are located on a steep hill. All three buildings have a small lot so if you’re driving a car or van you can park at each building to avoid going down and then climbing back up the hill but anything larger should be parked at the first building at the top of the hill. Museum
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