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Columbia, California
Photo: Chris Krylov, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Columbia was one of the richest Gold Rush towns and is now one of the best-preserved, with more than thirty restored buildings, a blacksmith, stagecoach rides and costumed interpreters. Streets are closed to cars, and the park is free to enter, though it is a living-history town more than an empty ghost town.
Open daily with free admission; park at the perimeter and walk in.
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