21 Wonders of Tuolumne County

(Selected by the Landmarks Committee)

Purpose: 

Wonders must promote heritage tourism and contribute to a “sense of place” by representing our unique natural and/or cultural heritage and whose loss or degradation would mean a loss to those defining elements that make Tuolumne County unique as a destination.

Criteria for Wonders:

·         Categories:  natural or man-made

·         Can be publicly or privately owned                     

·         Uniquely Tuolumne County or Mother Lode

·         Attracts heritage tourism

·         Should be protected from development or change

·         Accessibility

Natural (not ranked):

1. Yosemite & Tuolumne Grove of Giant Sequoias

2. Donnell Vista

3. Emigrant Wilderness

4. Trail of the Gargoyles

5. Column of the Giants

6. Trail of the Ancient Dwarfs

7. Bennett Juniper

8. Tuolumne River

9. Bell Meadow

10. Red Hills Area

11. Table Mountain

Man-Made (not ranked):

1. Hetch Hetchy Water & Power System

2. Kennedy Meadows

3. Pinecrest Lake Basin

4. Stone Corrals and Fences

5. Ditch System

6. Columbia State Historic Park and culturally modified landscape around park

7. Sierra Railway & Railtown1897 State Historic Park

8. Highway 108 – Old Sonora-Mono Road

9. Highway 120 – Old Big Oak Flat Road

10. Gamble Complex (Big Oak Flat)