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Sutter Creek 2021 Events

We will be rebuilding “EVENTS” in Sutter Creek as the pandemic winds down and tourism reopens!
(bookmark and watch this space)

Sutter Creek October Car Show
Sunday, October 10th 2021 (9am – 3pm)

The Annual Sutter Creek Car Show is a classic small town event, with the perfect backdrop, the historic gold rush buildings of Sutter Creek.

Historic Main Street is closed off for the day when the cars and their owners take over. Almost 100 classic cars and hot rods fill one end of town.

This event is FUN and FAMILY FRIENDLY!

Admission Fee
The Car Show is free to wander and admire and is open from 9am to 3pm.

MORE INFORMATION HERE

Celebrate the Holiday Season in Sutter Creek

Sutter Creek Plaid Friday & Small Business Saturday
Friday-Sunday: November 26th & 27th 2021

Downtown Sutter Creek kicks off a festive Holiday Weekend of Shopping Friday November 26th!

“Plaid Friday” when participating businesses share special promotions for shoppers wearing PLAID!

Sutter Creek 45th Annual Christmas Open House
December 3rd & 4th 2021

For 45 years, Sutter Creek has hosted a magical “Old Fashioned Christmas Open House” for everyone to celebrate and start the Christmas Season.

Festivities start Friday at 5pm on Friday, December 3rd.

“Sutter Creek is not short on Gold Rush history: Mining wealth built these handsome buildings. But what you feel now is the buzz of the new – first-rate home stores, restaurants that reach beyond the steak-and-whiskey Gold Country staples, and wine-tasting venues that celebrate Amador County’s way with the vine.” – Sunset Magazine

“Although John Sutter’s sawmill was about forty miles away, Sutter Creek is in the heart of the California Gold Country. Sutter made camp here, trying to avoid the gold rush crowds, but miners soon spilled in and made the town. Mining boomed and then faded…making way for today’s contagion: wine fever. In and around Sutter Creek you can mosey along sidewalks shaded by filigreed balconies.” – New York Times 36 Hours

Yesterday & Today

The town derives it’s name Sutter Creek after John Sutter. Sutter as early as 1844, had in pursuit of timber, established whipsawing pits and an outdoor manufacturing business named Pine Woods. It was this area near the creek, which runs behind City Hall, that became the site of new and permanent settlement. It is told the settlement started because of a single tent raised there for miners to use on rainy Sundays when they could not get to Jackson or Drytown. Sutter Creek truly established itself permanently when Gold quartz was discovered in 1851 and the became a major supply center.

Among other notable historic landmarks like Knight Foundry and the nearby Kennedy Mine, visitors should take some time to enjoy the historic wine country surrounding Sutter Creek. Wine production in the area dates back one hundred fifty years, when pioneers seeking their fortunes in gold found the ideal climate for growing wine grapes. Today Amador County boasts over 25 wineries and is famous for its red Zinfandels.