Outdoors

Sutter Creek is located a the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range.  At 1200 feet in elevation, above the valley fog and below the Sierra snow; Sutter Creek can make for a year round outdoor play ground.  One can hike, cycle, kayak, fish, swim, jog, gold pan or just stroll town.

  • Kirkwood Mountain Resort, one of the Lake Tahoe region’s best ski resort is located just 45 miles from Sutter Creek.
  • Calaveras Big Tree State Park
    Calaveras became a State Park in 1931 to preserve the North Grove of giant sequoias. This grove includes the “Discovery Tree”, the first Sierra redwood noted by Augustus T. Dowd in 1852. This area has been a major tourist attraction ever since, and is considered the longest continuously operated tourist facility in California.
  • Chaw’se Indian Grinding Rock State Park
    Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills eight miles east of Sutter Creek. The park nestles in a little valley 2,400 feet above sea level with open meadows and large valley oaks that once provided the native Americans of this area with an ample supply of acorns. The 135-acre park was created in 1968 and preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes — the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America.