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Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is truly a one-of-a-kind facility. Not only does it have the oldest roundhouse this side of the Mississippi, it houses three steam locomotives, the oldest a 1891 Rogers class locomotive known as “The Movie Train”. Sierra #3 has been seen in over 200 productions, including the very fist ‘talkie’ filmed on-location, 1929s The Virginian, the Western classic High Noon, TV classics Rawhide, Petticoat Junction, and Wild Wild West, Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider and Unforgiven, and Back to the Future III. All can be run along the 40+ miles of the Sierra Railroad between Jamestown and Oakdale, featuring varying terrain from plains, rolling hills, oak savannah, the high chapparal badlands called the Red Hills, and into the pines. If you’d like to visit Railtown, do it quick and visit this website.

Columbia State Historic Park is the best-preserved California Gold Rush town, with six blocks of original brick buildings (30 in all) dating back to the 1850s and 1860s.