Roaring Camp Mining Company

Website: www.roaringcampgold.com/

Must Do! Experience!!

Roaring Camp was once a camp for Forty Niners, but since it was so inaccessible, most of the gold still remains. Visitors can see our operating gold mine and can mine their own gold by panning, sluicing, metal detecting, and dry washing.

In the Mokelumne Canyon, the three forks of the Mokelumne River come together. It is a river unsurpassed in natural beauty. The water is so clear that one can watch the tadpoles and fish swim. There are waterfalls and natural rock formations forty feet high.

There is also a quiet, secluded “swimming hole” with rocks of varying sizes, ideal for diving by those who dare! Be sure to bring your fishing gear. The fishing here is excellent!

Saturday Night Cookout

Our Saturday Night Cookout Dinner is a five hour trip into the canyon, leaving at 5:00 P.M. and returning at 10:00 P.M. After the guide shows you the Museum, Camp and our Placer Gold mine operation, he will show you how to pan for gold. (You keep the nuggets!)

The dinner is a hearty New York Steak BBQ. Just wait until you taste the awesome fried bread! Cost is $65.00 per person for non-campers, or FREE for those who are staying in camp.

Gold Bearing Gravel Piles – This material is dug off bedrock and run through our scring and 1 ½ hours in the afternoon) and will take about 5 days to remove the gold from your operation. Cost is $500.00 Piles are limited, reservations should be made in advance.

All Day Guided Gold Panning Tour

For an affordable $50 per person, enjoy an ALL-DAY ADVENTURE into the Mokelumne River Canyon. We take you into the beautiful remote Mokelumne Canyon, once mined by the 49ers and still being mined today. See our Placer Gold Mine Operation, our Wildlife and Mining Artifacts Museums, the ruins of the past, pan for gold, collect rocks, fish, hike and enjoy river swimming in nature's most beautiful swimming hole.

Enjoy lunch in our Trading Post or bring a picnic lunch. Great for school field trips, birthday parties, company outings, or just a day on the river with your family. Please note, no pets allowed.

Tours go Thursdays through Tuesdays (no tours on Wednesdays) check in time 10:00 a.m. you return to your car at 4:00 p.m.

Common Operation

Everyone works together on the common operation and the gold found is divided equally between participants. Includes use of all mining equipment and the help from Roaring Camp’s Crew. Cost is $475.00 per person plus cabin or tent site.  209-296-4100.

Camping Open May – September

Cabins and tent camping at Roaring Camp, along the Mokelumne River in California.eening plant removing the larger rocks (non-gold bearing material). We will supply a sluice box, water, settling pond and necessary equipment for your mining, along with instruction and help from our crew. Equipment will be supplied for 3 hours per day (1 ½ hours in the morn

Comment response by CA Gold Diggers Meetup

Melanie has been going here for the last 3-4 years in August. It is so worth the $65 dinner experience! Great for a date, or take the family. Must Do!! You event get to pan a little, enjoy the river ambience, and live music. It is a tradition to do yearly.

Comment response East Bay Prospectors:

Roaring Camp is something special in the way of family recreation. It is an old Gold Mining camp on the Mokuumne River. Check it out!