Kentucky Mine Stamp Mill in Winter

We are open for the 2025 season.

Come visit us between 10 AM and 4 PM.

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The Gold Rush lives on at the Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City!

Today, the stamp mills are silent excepting two times each day when the Kentucky Mine stamp mill is once again brought to life to give folks on the twice daily tours of the mine and stamp mill a close up encounter with an operating stamp mill. Tour members are cautioned to cover their ears if sudden loud noises bother them because when the stamp drops, nearly everyone jumps! This is a chance to see and hear the sounds of a working gold mine is just the dramatic ending of the hour-plus tour that takes visitors through the incredible day-to-day experience of hard rock mining in the Sierra City mining region during the later part of the 19th century.

A visit to the Kentucky Mine and Museum located on Highway 49 near the town of Sierra City, CA, is a unique opportunity for you and your family to step into the world of the gold-seeking miners who worked the mines and built the towns that made California the golden state.

The Kentucky Mine and Museum is open 10 am to 4 pm, 7 days a week, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.  Guided gold mine and stamp mill tours start at 11 am and 2 pm daily.

Guided Tours include admission to the stamp mill and the museum:  $10.00 admission for adults, $5.00 for children ages 7-17, and free admission for children 6 and under.

Family-friendly pricing for just the museum is $5.00 per adult and  $2.00 per child. 

Bring the whole family for a day-in-the-life of a gold rush miner experience that will be a family trip gold-star day!

Hint: Sierra County Historical Society members receive free admission to the museum and tours. Learn more »

 

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Donations to the Kentucky Mine and Museum

If you have historic artifacts related to Sierra County and you would like to donate them, we would love to see them! Our museum is full of donated items, all related to the Sierra County. Please download a Temporary Custody Form and complete the form. You may then present the form and your artifact to our museum curator for inclusion into the museum. You could also help us by considering a monetary donation below! Thanks for supporting the Sierra County Historical Society.