California State Parks – California’s Gold (505)

Huell explores two of California’s most interesting State Parks: the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, located in the Eastern Mojave Desert, to see the famous Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve; and the Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, in the Sierra Nevadas, where we see a Miwok Indians legacy in a vast rock covered with thousands of grinding pits.

Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve:
760-928-2586

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park:
209-296-7488

Note: This episode was released across Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) affiliated stations in California, but not necessarily on the same day for each station. The date shown represents an earliest, approximate airdate for this episode. A more conclusive airdate may potentially be between May 1, 1994 – May 31, 1994.