Tuolumne City Memorial Museum
Tuolumne City Memorial Museum is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 790 m. Duckwall Mountain stands 1,775 m to the east, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Heisler #2 Steam Engine, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.
The story
The Tuolumne City Memorial Museum preserves the history of this mining and logging town on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada in California. Exhibits trace the area's history going back to early Miwok Indian culture, early agricultural endeavors, gold mining, and the extensive logging operations of the West Side Lumber Company. Tuolumne, which was originally known as Summerville, and later Carters, was the site of the West Side's large sawmill, which operated from 1899 until the 1960s, when it burned during a labor strike. The company also operated an extensive narrow-gauge railroad into the Sierra to bring logs to the mill. Standard-gauge tracks of the well-known Sierra Railroad came to Tuolumne to take finished lumber to market. Some trestles and other remnants of the logging railroad still exist, and the museum organizes annual field trips into the woods to visit such sites. The museum has a number of exhibits chronicling the lives of prominent citizens of the area, including a collection of family Bibles and historic cemetery records.
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Wikidata Q7853425, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 19.9 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
- 22.4 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Eaton: 1.5 mi
- Buckhorn Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Mount Provo: 3.8 mi
- Murphy Peak: 4.3 mi
- Wet Meadow Hill: 5.0 mi
- West Side Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
- Willow Springs Park: 2.8 mi
- Groveland Sports Complex: 7.8 mi
- Coffill Park: 8.1 mi
- Coffils Park: 8.2 mi
- Alder Spring: 2.3 mi
- Deadwood Spring: 8.0 mi
- Indian Spring: 8.8 mi
- Robert Nichols Spring: 9.1 mi
- Camp Twentyone Spring: 9.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial Military Museum: 8.2 mi
- Tuolumne County Museum: 8.3 mi
- Groveland Museum: 8.4 mi
- Groveland Jail: 8.5 mi
- Jamestown Museum: 10.2 mi
- Miner’s Camp: 10.1 mi
- Springfield Armory/School/Store: 10.5 mi
- Grumman TS-2A Tracker: 10.8 mi
- Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail - Chinese Camp: 12.4 mi
- Old Crimea House: 15.9 mi
- Heisler #2 Steam Engine: 0.1 mi
- Jamestown Branch Jail: 10.2 mi
- Moaning Caverns Adventure Park: 14.6 mi
- Murphys Pokey: 17.4 mi
- Mercer Caverns: 18.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 8.2 mi
- Remote Camp: 9.9 mi
- Moccasin Point: 10.8 mi
- Lupine Day Use Area: 15.0 mi
- Heron Point Day Use: 15.4 mi
- Dunn Court Beach: 7.7 mi
- Pine Mountain Lake Marina Beach: 7.9 mi
- Lake Lodge Beach: 8.1 mi
- Beach 2: 20.7 mi
- Beach 1: 20.7 mi
- Chinese Camp: 12.5 mi
- French Flat: 12.9 mi
- Carson Hill: 15.5 mi
- Horseshoe Bend: 19.7 mi
- Cat Town: 23.3 mi
- The Grotto: 12.7 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 18.0 mi
- Negro Jack Point: 19.4 mi
- McKays Point: 19.8 mi
- Red Hills: 13.9 mi
- National Recreation Area: 14.4 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 19.7 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 20.9 mi
- Jawbone Falls: 14.7 mi
- Diana Falls: 18.4 mi
- Preston Falls: 20.0 mi
- Carlon Falls: 24.0 mi
- Dedication Garden: 10.0 mi
- Natural Bridge: 14.6 mi
- Scoutmaster Grotto: 16.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Tuolumne City Memorial Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duckwall Mountain | E 85° | 1,775 m | 6.4 mi |
| Bald Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,771 m | 15.0 mi |
| Marble Mountain | NE 53° | 1,665 m | 7.3 mi |
| Crandall Peak | NNE 20° | 1,664 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mount Lewis | NE 38° | 1,661 m | 6.5 mi |
| Thompson Peak | ENE 74° | 1,607 m | 9.4 mi |
| Elizabeth Peak | N 355° | 1,486 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Provo | NNE 25° | 1,479 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:48 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:04 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 44 | 48 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 6.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groveland 2, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/5381551801
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