AREA ACTIVITIES
 Three Big, Nearby Area Draws: Jeeping,
Fabulous Horse Trails,
and Gorgeous River and Lake Water
July 4 - A BIG CELEBRATION
Auburn Lake Trails also has their
local July 4 Parade in Cool, CA

Event Pictures Below

Event: JEEPERS JAMBOREE IN GEORGETOWN. This Event is considered to be the oldest, toughest and largest organized event of this type in the world. It has worldwide publicity through TV, radio, magazines, and neewspapers.  It has taken more than 35,000 vehicles and over 100,000 people over the Rubicon rail. People from all over the world have participated in this trip. Every July-August,  hundreds of Jeeps visit Georgetown, for all day Jeep Ride that is rated the hardest in US. Anyone with a Jeep can enter with about a $250 or more entry fee. Fully catered, gourmet meals, swim- ming, and top entertainment at Rubicon Springs. Event: THE TEVIS CUP - Famous 100 mi. horse endurance race going from Lake Tahoe through Foresthill, Cool, and Georgetown Divide.  The challenging Cougar Rock pictured. Look and you can see horses approaching the top. An all day Endurance Race said to be the toughest in the US. Have 24 hours to go 100 miles, from Lake Tahoe, to the Finish Line in Auburn. About 250 horses, pre-qualified, enter each year, finishing at the Auburn Fairgrounds. They also award the Haeggin Cup for best conditioned horse after the ride. Year after Year many of the area's horses are in the top ten in endurance and condition.

EVENT: Swimming & White Water Rafting in the American River: Pictured above a quieter section of the river where many play and swim near Dave Moore Federal Park, Off Hwy 49.  This river is also called the Gold Rush river. The South Fork American, today still delivers its own special currency as the most popular (and most populated) whitewater run in California. Even before James Marshall's fortuitous 1848 find in John Sutter's mill race, the Rio de los Americanos flaunted its reputation as a wild and capricious mountain stream.Today, tempered by upstream dams, the South Fork still lurches and bucks through cataracts of boulders, drops and chutes, on its headstrong plunge through Meatgrinder, Fowlers Rock, and Satan's Cesspool, then delivers a rough goodbye at Hospital Bar. Along with these heart-stopping rapids, you'll no doubt come to shore long enough to do some discovering of your own at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Park. The twenty-one (21) mile river run can be made in a full day or a more relaxing two day trip. Coloma, on Hwy 49 and nearby Chili Bar, Hwy 193, are entry points for rafting. There are still quiet sections of water and small sandy beaches to play and swim in the Coloma Parks

More activities for the less adventuresome--
for families, residents, and friends.

Marshall Grange valentine Event:
Pictured is Marty Shelton,
co-chairman of a past event.		 Hiking club is very active.
Email: Sarah or Philip Lieberman
philipliberman@yahoo.com		 Special dancing event at the IOOF Hall in Georgetown
One of the past events at the Airport for Airport Appreciation Day with a fly-in of small planes in the region. Fund raiser for Airport bathrooms. Colorful planes at the Georgetown fly-ins sponsored by previous airport popular FBOs, Trish and Steve Cimmarusti, at the Local Airport. None other than the Bayley House in Pilot Hill. Many fundraisers at House Barn behind to help restore this once very famous California estate.
Georgetown's Bed & Breakfast, the American Inn decorated for Christmas
on Main Street.

Special people on the Divide, Bob and
Miriam Toren from Cool.
Bob writes a popular
local column for Gazette

 An Arabian Horse in the July 4 Parade in Garden Valley. Must the local Buckeye Restaurant lady, Mrs. Dubey.
Cowboy poet, once a guest at the El Dorado Equestrian foundation
horse club meeting and social event at the IOOF Hall.		 Marshall Grange Annual Christmas Open House with goodies, music and
vendors with unique craft booths.		 Great horse trails all over the Georgetown Divide, including Cool, Garden Valley, Cool, Georgetown, Greenwood.
Special salsa dancing event at the IOOF Hall in Garden Valley Lois from Pilot Hill is a Lakota Elder and was one of advisors to the Native
American "Happening" (mini Pow Wow)Held in Garden Valley Park in 2001.		 Special Music-on-the Divide Gathering at the Toren's home in Auburn Lake Hills.
Local Garden Valley resident, Dave Shapiro playing at the ever popular People Mountain Market held every Saturday throughout the summer in Garden Valley Park. More music playing at the ever popular People Mountain Market held every Saturday throughout the summer in Garden Valley Park. the Old West band plays at the Buckeye Steak house in Georgetown and at Club events like the Divide Horsemen's Christmas Party.
Greenwood Center being completed in Greenwood. A trail system is planned around the acreage adjoining along with a swimming pool. CHere, Sally Shapiro, work of art of Theresa Lyngell, is being moved to the foundry (can now see it installed in Georgetown near Sisters Coffee House. Pictured, rt to left, David Griffith, Robin Ramsay, David Shapiro and our own local author of a
noted hiking book of the area.		 One of the Old Cars in our HOT AUGUST NIGHTS held in Garden Valley Park in August, of course. There has been as many as 100 entries of old cars and old trucks and bikes. Quite an event with food, music, booths and fun for all. Prizes are given for best entries in different categories.
   
  Beautiful Stumpy Meadows Lake/Reservoir, 15 minutes past Georgetown up Wentworth Springs Rd, and about 45 minutes from Cool, and 40 minutes from Garden Valley. The Lake actually looks like a mini Lake Tahoe from the ground. Quite Beautiful and our source of the best drinking water for the Area. There is ample places to swim and fish and there are picnic tables at the lake.  


July 4 - A BIG CELEBRATION WITH A
PARADE IN GARDEN VALLEY