Heritage Trail 2024

 

The Heritage Trail 

A Summer Long Adventure in 2024!

 

 25 MUSEUMS - ROSEVILLE TO TAHOE!

Find this Summer's Trail Guide and information here: https://theheritagetrail.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-heritage-trail-2024.html

Welcome Trail Travelers!

We are glad you decided to join us on the Heritage Trail Museums Tour. 25 museums from Roseville to Tahoe/Truckee are opening their doors free of charge for certain days throughout the summer. All 25 museums are committed to showcasing history in a fun and entertaining way. For many Trail Travelers, this event has become a family tradition. Geographic clusters of museums will have their Heritage Trail event on certain Saturdays throughout the summer.  This way you have the whole summer to visit participating museums.

If you can’t make it on a museums’ Heritage Trail Day, you can visit them during their regular hours of operation and still get your Get-Up-And-Go cards stamped!  All museums have free admission on their Heritage Trail Day (see calendar below). If you visit them on any other day, you will have to pay admission if applicable.

Whether you are from Auburn, Reno, San Francisco, or Boston, please enjoy this opportunity to take a trip back in time and get a better understanding of Placer County’s rich and colorful history. Each museum on the tour is unique. Aside from immersing yourselves in history, you will enjoy the variety of settings at each museum. If you are a student entering K thru 12^th grade in the fall of 2024, you can enter a chance to win a special prize by completing a student scavenger hunt card. Scavenger hunt cards are available in participating museums.

We'll have the calendar up soon, but look below to see what museums will be involved! Thanks again for joining us. We hope you have a great time!

TRAIL TIPS

THE FOLLOWING TRAIL TIPS WILL HELP YOU PLAN YOUR ADVENTURE.

·         For questions about The Heritage Trail, please call 530-889-6500.

·         Eating, drinking and smoking are not permitted in the museums.

·         Leave pets at home.

·         You’ll want to bring your camera. Inquire at each museum for flash photography guidelines.

·         Be sure to pick up your FREE Get Up & Go card at the first museum you visit.

·         If you can’t make it to a museum on their Heritage Trail Day, please visit them during regular hours of operation.

·         This year it will take 4 stamps on your Get-Up-And-Go card to qualify for a gift basket drawing.

 

Heritage Trail 2024 Participants

Sierra College Natural History Museum   

5000 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin

916-660-7923 https://www.sierracollege.edu/about-us/visit/natural-history-museum.php

 

The Wheatland History Museum  

111 Main St. Wheatland, CA

Wheatlandhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

 

Lincoln Area Archives Museum   

640 Fifth St., Lincoln

916-645-3800  www.laamca.org

 

Fruitvale Schoolhouse Museum 

3425 Fruitvale Rd., Lincoln

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

Bernhard Museum

291 Auburn Folsom Rd., Auburn

530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums

Benton Welty School Room

1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn

530-906-0712 www.placercountyhistoricalsociety.org

Maidu Museum & Historic Site

1970 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville

916-774-5934  www.roseville.ca.us/indianmuseum

Roseville Telephone Museum

106 Vernon St., Roseville

916-786-1621 www.consolidated.com/museum

Roseville Historical Society Carnegie Museum

557 Lincoln St., Roseville

916-773-3003 www.rosevillehistorical.org

Loomis Basin Historical Society at the Loomis Library and Community Learning Center 

6050 Library Dr., Loomis

916-824-2905  http://loomislibrary.org/

Griffith Quarry Museum  

Corner of Taylor and Rock Springs Roads, Penryn

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

Rocklin History Museum 

3895 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin

916-624-3464  www.rocklinhistorical.org

Golden Drift Museum

32820 Main St., Dutch Flat

530-389-2126  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

 

Colfax Area Heritage Museum 

99 Railroad St., Colfax

530-346-8599  www.colfaxhistory.org

 

Placer County Museum (Historic Courthouse) 

101 Maple St., Auburn

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

Gold Rush Museum  

601 Lincoln Way, Auburn

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

Western States Trail Museum 

 High St., Auburn

 www.wstrailmuseum.org

The Joss House Museum and Chinese History Center

200 Sacramento St., Auburn

www.auburnjosshouse.org

Summit Tunnel Conservation Association Hike

19195 Donner Pass Rd., Norden (but will come up as “Truckee” for USPS purposes)

Contact: 530-305-2241

 

Gatekeepers Museum

130 West Lake Blvd., Tahoe City

530-583-1762  www.northtahoemuseums.org

Watson Cabin

560 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City

530-583-1762 www.northtahoemuseums.org

Museum of Truckee History

10065 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee www.museumoftruckeehistory.org  

Truckee Railroad Museum

10075 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee www.truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com/museum/museum.htm

 

Truckee Old Jail Museum

10142 Jibboom St., Truckee

530-582-0983  www.truckeehistory.org/old-jail-museum

 

DeWitt History Museum

2985 Richardson Dr., Auburn

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/museums

 

Placer County Museums Archives and Collections Facility

11526 C Ave., Auburn

530-889-6500  www.placer.ca.gov/Museums

 

Forest Hill Divide Museum

24601 Harrison St., Foresthill

530-367-3988  www.foresthillhistory.org

 

Get-Up-And-Go Cards

You can pick-up your Get-Up-And-Go cards at the first Heritage Trail Day (June 3^rd) from the Sierra College Natural History Museum.  After that day, you can pick up Get-Up-And-Go cards from any participating museum.  You can pick up cards and get them stamped on any day the museum is open throughout the summer.  This year, it will take 4 stamps on your card to enter the drawing for a gift basket. Please remember that you can only play one Get-Up-And-Go card at a time.  You are free to start another card once you have turned in a fully stamped card. Cards must be turned in by 4:00 pm by September 4^th at any participating museum.