Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park

An absolutely beautiful place to visit, brought my kids and we spent half a day doing the museum, panning for gold and hanging out on the river. They have picnic tables scattered around the park, the whole park is pet friendly as well. Definitely a must stop for anyone in the area. Parking was like ten dollars for the whole day.

Great place! You could spend all day here. Google maps says it closed at 5. It actually closed at 4. The range inside the museum when we got there told us to go outside first as the things outside closed before inside did. So we did that and actually everything closed at 4 so we completely missed the main museum. That was a bummer. The mining methods exhibit is my favorite. So much interesting information and fantastically well laid out. The kids were convinced we were going into a mine! Thankfully the bathrooms are accessible from outside for after the museum closed. They have the coolest tiles in them!

I've moved in the area my whole life and finally got around to visiting! Used my State Park pass for my parking, and only had to pay for the tour. The kids loved the Junior Rangers activity book. Even my almost 4 year old was into it.