Fodor's Expert Review Angels Camp Museum
Angels Camp
Fodor's Choice
Learn a little bit about Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"—and Angels Camp's celebrated frog-jumping contests—at this museum's street-side facility, then head to the 3-acre spread behind it for a fascinating survey of gold rush–era mining history. The grounds include a carriage house with pre-automotive farming and passenger coaches and wagons and a large building with mining equipment. Outside, in its original mountings, stands the 27-foot-diameter water wheel that powered machinery at the area's Angels Quartz Mine.
