People drive from miles around to view the Table Mountain wildflowers in bloom during Spring, such is their profusion and variety. Most outstanding are the brilliant poppies and the sky-shades of lupines. The area is also a favorite of kite flyers.

Cherokee, settled in 1853 by a schoolteacher and his Cherokee Indian students, contains a museum (530-533-1849 by appointment). Its displays attest to the old hydraulic gold mining town that boomed from 1870-1886. President Rutherford B. Hayes and General Sherman visited here during its heyday, and investors included Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.

Cherokee Cemetery is dedicated to the early pioneer families who founded the community.

A short drive brings you to Oregon City and the 1885 school. Of special interest is the covered bridge, which though built in 1984, was authenticated by the National Society for the Preservation on Covered Bridges due to its design and construction. About half way between the bridge and the school, is a museum with a wealth of artifacts, including a lamppost that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.