In the heart of the Gold Country, the Auburn State Recreation Area (Auburn SRA) covers over 35,000 acres (142 km²) along 40 miles (60 km) of the North and Middle Forks of the American River, in Placer County, California. Once teeming with thousands of gold miners, the area is now a natural area offering a wide variety of recreation opportunities to over 500,000 visitors a year. Auburn State Recreation Area from the public domain site http://www. ... Gold Country (also Mother Lode Country) is a region of northeastern California famed for the mines and mineral deposits which so famously brought the 49ers west for the California Gold Rush. ... The American River, located in the US state of California, has a prominent place in American history for being the site of Sutters Mill, where gold was found in 1848, leading to the California Gold Rush. ... Placer County is a county located in California, USAs Sierra Nevada, in the Gold Country. ...

Major recreational uses include hiking, swimming, boating, fishing, camping, mountain biking, gold panning, equestrian/horseback riding trails and off-highway motorcycle riding. Whitewater recreation is also very popular on both forks of the river, with Class II, III and IV runs. Beautiful natural scenes are common hiking destinations Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ... A breaststroke swimmer A dog swimming Swimming describes any method by which living creatures move themselves through water apart from walking on the bottom. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Car camping with all the comforts Camping is an outdoor recreational activity involving the spending of one or more nights in a tent, primitive structure, a travel trailer or recreational vehicle at a campsite with the purpose of getting away from civilization and enjoying nature. ... A mountain biker climbs on an off-road track Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off paved roads. ... A sluice box used in placer mining Placer mining (pronounced plass-er) is a open-pit or open-cast form of mining by which certain valuable minerals are extracted from the earth without tunneling. ... A junior horse riding event at the Melbourne Show Equestrianism relates to the riding of horses. ... Imme R 100,Germany, 1948/1949 Image:Mika Kallio Red Bull Racer 125 II.jpg Contemporary racing motorcycle A 125 cc motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet. ...

Auburn SRA is made up of the lands set aside for the Auburn Dam. However, a large earthquake at Oroville nearby was found to have been caused by the dam and reservoir at that location, which led to examination and discovery that the Auburn dam site is situated on an earthquake fault. This discovery halted the Auburn Dam project because of fears that constructing a dam and lake would cause a reservoir-induced earthquake which would lead to a dam's collapse, with catastrophic consequenses for the city of Sacramento lying directly below. As such, the project has been abandoned and as a result millions of people now enjoy the Auburn State Recreation Area in its spectacular natural state, with multiple wilderness canyons offering access to one of the last remaining natural river systems in Central California. The California State Parks administers the area under a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The United States Bureau of Reclamation (Formerly the United States Reclamation Service) is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees water development projects in the western United States. ...