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GOLD FEVER TRAIL - Big Bear Lake to Holcomb Valley - San Bernardino National Forest

GOLD FEVER TRAIL. Saturday February 22nd 2014. Big Bear Lake to Holcomb Valley - San Bernardino National Forest California. Forest Roads 2N09, 3N16, 3N05. We reconnoitered the Gold Fever Trail for a future trip with friends. We find all 12 locations listed on the map. We took about 4-5 hours to complete the trip. We spent a little extra time hiking around, taking photos and videos, and exploring. San Bernardino National Forest. Big Bear Lake California. Holcomb Valley. Go to the Big Bear Discovery Center on the North Shore of Big Bear Lake to pick up a trail guide/map of the Gold Fever Trail. You can find a copy of the guide/map online at: http://www.bigbeargetawayguide.com/PD... Or more information here: http://www.mabb-mortengenealogy.com/g... Information from Big Bear News. KBHR933.com http://kbhr933.com/current-news/gold-... It all started when William F. Holcomb left Indiana to seek his fortune in the mining camps of Northern California. Discouraged by his poor luck there, he drifted southward. While in Los Angeles, he was told a story about a small gold discovery in the San Bernardino Mountains. So it was in 1859 that Bill Holcomb came to these hills. And the rest is history. Gold Fever Trail Nuggets Of History In Holcomb Valley Welcome to the historic gold country of the San Bernardino National Forest. This trail takes you through the now peaceful Holcomb Valley where the saga of early miners is still recorded. The mileage shown at each stop is the distance from the Big Bear Ranger Station. The tour is 10.9 miles in length over a dirt road, and 8.2 miles back to the Ranger Station via State Highway 18. Plan on about three hours to complete the trip. From the Ranger Station go west on Highway 38, drive 1.2 miles and turn right on Polique Canyon Road. 2N09. (Holcomb Valley turnoff.) GOLD FEVER TRAIL -- SIGN POSTS 1. Holcomb View Trail (3.6 miles) Follow the Pacific Crest Trail about 250 feet to the viewpoint. 2. Last Chance Placer (5.2 miles) Drive in 200 feet. 3. Two-Gun Bill's Saloon (6.2 miles) There is a short 280-foot walk to the saloon. 4. Jonathan Tibbetts' Grasshopper Quartz Mill (6.7 miles) 5. Hangman's Tree (6.9 miles) 6. Original Gold Diggings (7.1 miles) 7. Belleville (7.4 miles) 8. Arrastres (7.4 miles) There is a 300-foot walk. 9. Ross' Grave (7.7 miles) There is a 460-foot trail to the grave site. 10. Pigmy Cabin (7.7 miles) The trail to the cabin is 870 feet in length. 11. Metzger Mine (9.3 miles) There is an 800-foot trail to the mine. Updated Information on METZGAR MINE from Youtube User Kyle Z. George and Charles were in the second generation of miners, having come from Illinois in the 70's. They were born in the 40's and died in 1918 and 1921. Charles' second son was born in a little log cabin in 1887 in Saragossa Spring, a spring Charles discovered and named while digging through a mountain. I recently learned about this doing ancestry and discovering that two of my great-great-great grandfather's cousin's mined here, and Metzger Mine is named for them. George A. Metzgar and Charles L. Metzgar. Their last name was spelled with an "ar", and it was called Moonstone Mine. At some point there must have been some remembrance of the last name of its owner and it took the name "Metzger Mine" spelled incorrectly. There seems to never be any mention of them in descriptions of the mine/Holcomb Valley. 12. Gold Mountain Mine aka "Lucky Baldwin Mine"