Events: Sutter Creek – 2021 October Car Showinnlight2021-09-10T14:54:01-07:00

Sutter Creek Events

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.

To make this great event even better, there will be a live band, food carts plus a beer/margarita cart.

This event is FUN and FAMILY FRIENDLY!

Please note that the Car Show is normally accompanied by the Great Sutter Creek Chili Cook-Off. Not so this year. Should be back in tandem in 2022.

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

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“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.

Sutter Creek Events

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

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