Heritage Trail 2012

The preparation for the 2012 Heritage Trail is well underway! The date of this year's event is going to be the weekend of August 11th and 12th. Be sure to mark that on your calendar so you won't miss it. Don't have a calendar? We can help out with that. We've got a couple different, and historically significant calendars for sale on zazzle.com. Click the link below to check them out.

Basket Winners!

 Below is a gallery of winners from this year’s Heritage Trail Passport drawing.  These intrepid travelers visited at least four different museums to fill up their cards with stamps and turned them in. Congratulations museum lovers!

Carol

Vic, mom, and Haley the winner

Richard

Angie

Placer Produce Joins the Trail

This just in, Placer GROWN has confirmed that they will be running an old fashioned farm stand out of the back of one of the wagons at the Bernhard Museum this weekend. They will be selling locally grown crops that were once produced on the Bernhard farm including peaches, berries, plums, and apricots.

The free hand cranked ice cream that will be on offer, will be flavored using Placer GROWN produce.

The Heritage Trail Prize Drawing

 

Not only do Heritage Trail travelers get steeped in local history, but they also have a chance to win fabulous prizes. Three prize baskets will go to the winners of our drawing. To be eligible just pick up your card at any museum and get it stamped at four different museums before turning it in.

The center basket is from the Old Town Auburn Business Association and includes gift certificates from shops and restaurants, a decorated egg, sterling silver heart pendant and earrings, cookbooks, Bloody Mary mix, jewelry, lotions, hair care products, t-shirts, a purse and luggage tags, and a metal sign.

The baskets on the sides are full of items donated by all the museums on the tour.  They include books, gold vials, coffee mugs, water bottles, a t-shirt, Chinese fans and pillow covers, a gift certificate for the Christmas Tree Vineyard Lodge, cross country ski passes, and products from Snow’s Citrus Court.

Hotel Discounts!

Seeing as the Heritage Trail weekend is two days long, not unlike most other weekends, the good folks at Placer County Tourism have whipped up hotel packages to allow out-of-towners to enjoy both days of the event. Head over to their website to check out which hotels are offering money off for those on the Trail. They also have information on the other great attractions the south end of our county has to offer. Not that you’ll have time to check them out this weekend but, being the hospitable gold country types we are, we’d love to see you come back.  

 Click on the link below for details

 

The 2011 Trail Guide is Here!

While not available in print yet, you can get the jump on the weekend by following the link below to our online version of this year’s guide. It contains maps and information about all 18 participating museums as well as trail tips and the schedule for the bus tours.

Online Trail Guide

Thanks to our Sponsors!

We’d like to take a moment to thank our sponsors for this year’s heritage trail: Capital Public Radio, SureWest, Native Sons of the Golden West - Auburn Parlor #59, and County of Placer.