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5 » MUST SEE , DO » Historic Hotel In the picturesque old mining town of Murphys, the Murphys Historic Hotel has hosted everyone from Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant to Black Bart. › murphyshotel.com Mother Lode Underground Scratch beneath the surface for a tour of limestone caverns with dogtooth spar crystals, helictites and head-banging stalactites at Mercer Caverns. › mercercaverns.com » » Bottoms Up Sample the rich, jammy Zinfandels and other wines without the crowds at dozens of wineries in Amador, El Dorado and Calaveras counties. › sierrawineries.com » Eureka! Start your own personal Gold Rush as you pan for nuggets at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park. › parks.ca.gov/?page_id=484 » "Gem of the Southern Mines" OPPOSITE: © ALEXANDRU CRISTIAN CIOBANU; SPERDUE71; BILL WALL;LAURA HANSON Step back into the 1850s with a visit to Columbia State Historic Park, a functioning town preserved in the Gold Rush era. › parks.ca.gov/?page_id=552 SIGN FOR HISTORIC Jamestown above; everybody loves a swimming hole like this one at Purdue Crossing on the Yuba River, top. SPECIAL EVENTS 2013 Wager on a jumping frog as Mark Twain's most beloved story is commemorated each year at the CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR & JUMPING FROG JUBILEE in Angels Camp. May 16-19 frogtown.org Tap your toes as hundreds of fiddle players from the world over rosin up their bows at the annual FIDDLERS' JAM at Fiddletown. Sep. 21 fiddletownca.org Celebrate the apple harvest—and autumn itself—with apple pie, apple cider and apple fritters in the orchards carpeting APPLE HILL, east of Placerville. Labor Day to Christmas. applehill.com 2 0 1 3 t r av e l gu i d e to c a l i fo rnia 1 65