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The Desolation Wilderness is a 63,960-acre (258.8 km 2) federally protected wilderness area in the Eldorado National Forest and Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, in El Dorado County, California. The crest of the Sierra Nevada runs through it, just west of Lake Tahoe. [1]
El Dorado Hills (El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden") is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California , it had a population of 50,547 at the 2020 census , up from 42,108 at the 2010 census .
The entire route of California State Route 153 lies within the park, and allows visitors to drive to the top of the hill where the monument to James W. Marshall stands. The Gold Discovery Museum features gold-rush-era exhibits including mining equipment, horse-drawn vehicles, household implements and other memorabilia.
Loon Lake is a reservoir in the Eldorado National Forest of El Dorado County, California, United States.The 76,200 acre⋅ft (94,000,000 m 3) lake is formed by Loon Lake Dam, completed in 1963 (61 years ago) () as part of the Upper American River Project by Sacramento Municipal Utility District to conserve spring snow melt runoff for use during the summer and autumn for hydroelectric power ...
Pine Hill Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of 403 acres (1.63 km 2) located due east of Folsom Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in El Dorado County, California.The reserve was established in 1979, and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
A panorama from a trail within the forest. Most of the forest (72.8%) lies in El Dorado County.In descending order of land area the others counties are: Amador, Alpine, and Placer counties in California; and Douglas County in Nevada with 78 acres (320,000 m 2). [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in El Dorado County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Folsom Lake with its surrounding Folsom Lake State Recreation Area is one of the most visited parks in the California park system. Located within Placer, El Dorado, and Sacramento Counties, it is about 25 mi (40 km) northeast of Sacramento. The lake surface area is 11,500 acres (4,700 ha), its elevation is 466 ft (142 m), and it has 75 mi (121 ...