Post by blackcrowheart on Mar 20, 2006 16:39:58 GMT -5
Grinding Rock (community)
Indian Grinding Rock Historic State Park is just a 60-minute drive from
Stockton but centuries away in terms of its re-created Indian village
and thousands of ancient mortar holes and petroglyphs that dot a flat
limestone plateau in the Sierra foothills.
The trick is to come here before the summer heat sets in. Pack a picnic,
take a two-mile hike on well-groomed trails that pass by the mortar
holes and petroglyphs, accented by clusters of oak trees. Then go
exploring indoors through the authentic bark houses and a magnificent
60-foot roundhouse that is still used by the Miwok people for tribal
celebrations, and take time for indepth studies at the Chaw'se Regional
Indian Museum and a look at artifacts from 10 area tribes.
Indian Grinding Rock is open daily but the museum hours have been curbed
to meet budget demands - with doors open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays. Day use is
just $6 per vehicle, a dollar less if the driver is 62 years or older.
There also are 23 year-round campsites at $14 a night and five bark
houses - a unique environmental camping experience - where visitors roll
out their sleeping bags in a house built with cedar poles interwoven
with grapevines and covered with cedar bark.
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Indian Grinding Rock Historic State Park is just a 60-minute drive from
Stockton but centuries away in terms of its re-created Indian village
and thousands of ancient mortar holes and petroglyphs that dot a flat
limestone plateau in the Sierra foothills.
The trick is to come here before the summer heat sets in. Pack a picnic,
take a two-mile hike on well-groomed trails that pass by the mortar
holes and petroglyphs, accented by clusters of oak trees. Then go
exploring indoors through the authentic bark houses and a magnificent
60-foot roundhouse that is still used by the Miwok people for tribal
celebrations, and take time for indepth studies at the Chaw'se Regional
Indian Museum and a look at artifacts from 10 area tribes.
Indian Grinding Rock is open daily but the museum hours have been curbed
to meet budget demands - with doors open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays. Day use is
just $6 per vehicle, a dollar less if the driver is 62 years or older.
There also are 23 year-round campsites at $14 a night and five bark
houses - a unique environmental camping experience - where visitors roll
out their sleeping bags in a house built with cedar poles interwoven
with grapevines and covered with cedar bark.
Click to read the rest of the article:
www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060310/SPORTS05/603100328/1004/SPORTS