Weaverville, California

Weaverville is in a remote location, surrounded by the Trinity Alps Wilderness.  These mountains were featured in the October 17, 2008 issue of the New York Times. Weaverville serves as the usual southern gateway to the Trinities. I do not recommend access to Weaverville from the north, given the steep grade and narrow, switchback road in that direction.  Weaverville is a historic California Gold Rush town, once home to 2,000 Chinese gold mine laborers.  The Weaverville Joss House (also called Cloud Forest Temple) is a Daoist temple. It was built in 1874 and is California's best-preserved example of a Gold Rush-era Chinese place of worship. The temple is now a California State Park. The Old West did live large in Weaverville with gunfights, saloons and even bank robberies by notorious figures like Black Bart. One of the local restaurants is located in a building that still houses the safe that was robbed by this historic outlaw.  Weaverville lies on Route 299 in far northwest California.