Gold Prospecting Adventures has an adventure for everyone! Just look at the list, choose your adventure, and make a reservation for an expedition you'll remember forever! Gold prospecting is the fastest growing hobby in America. It offers something far removed from the pressures of everyday life! Visitors to historic Jamestown and Jimtown 1849 Gold Mining Camp always say this is the high point of their vacation. Spend some quality time with your family looking for gold! We get gold on every trip of two hours or more and, you keep all the gold you find!

Get the total Experience! This 7-day adventure makes you feel like a 49er. Join our joint dredging (optional) and highbanking operations. On the last day, we celebrate! A BBQ and the gold nuggets from the joint operations will be split among everyone. You keep all the gold you find on your own. You'll learn to read a stream and the proper techniques in gold retrieval. This fantastic expedition includes camping and great food cooked up by a real Sourdough.


This is for the real adventurer! All the sniping, crevicing and metal detecting you can stand. Spend time with modern-day, professional prospectors and learn where to get the gold nuggets. We find gold on every trip and you keep all the gold you find! One- and two-day trips (lunch included ) are available.




Ride the rapids to where the gold is located! These are exciting Adventures which combine the thrill of shooting the rapids in the gold country with the excitement of finding gold!




Soar through the air to a remote river by helicopter. Spend several days looking for gold and relaxing in the wilderness beside mountain rivers of unsurpassed beauty!




You can average 1,000 pans per hour with this highbanking expedition. You keep all the gold you find. This expedition finds the most gold. Gold Prospecting Adventures can provide camping facilities with showers and BBQ or wilderness camping. Reserve your date early as choice dates do sell out!





Dredging is seasonal and you must be able to use underwater breathing apparatus.





Jamestown
Families visit the Gold Country
Tour Bus
Jimtown 1849 Gold Mining Camp
They Came to See the Elephant
Portable Panning Trough
International Gold Prospecting Program
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