On Monday we traveled from Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento to our campground at Greeley Hill, CA.

We got away in fairly good time but got lost getting through one town, as we missed our turn and had go back and find it. After we got on the freeway (99) things were moving along pretty well until we say a sign that said there was a wreck near sr4. Soon, we came upon the backlog of traffic and lost about an hour getting through. Only one lane was open down from the normal 3 lanes. Apparently it was a big wreck as they had wreckers and a trailer there with a lot of wreckage loaded in it and they had a sweeper cleaning up some powder due to maybe fuel spill or oil or a similar product.

Finally we arrived at Coulterville after a difficult trip across road 120 that was very crooked as well as up and down. Lots of short grades, some down to first gear and then down the other side and around a corner.

We had called ahead and made a reservation, so they were holding our spot. He said just go to Coulterville, turn left go about 50 yards and turn right up the hill on the Greeley Hill Road. Go 7 miles and the campground is on the right. Does not sound difficult, but what he did not say was the 7 miles was up the mountain. Had I known it was all uphill, I would have unhooked the van and drove both units up the hill. Much of it was 2nd gear and some first gear with very little break in the grade. There was not any place to pull off or stop, so we just kept going and sure enough, after 7 miles of this road, there was the Yosemite Westlake Campground. As it was nearing dark, we were escorted down a hill to a level place where we unhooked the van and finally got the motorhome in a space on the side of a hill. Other units had a front wheel several inches off the ground to get leveled up.
We were there for two nights as we planned on going on to Yosemite the next day and did not want to try to get back down the Greeley Hill road after driving to in and around Yosemite.

The photos are of Coulterville, a very historic town from the gold rush days.

The Hotel Jeffrey is in very good condition on the outside, however we did not find out if it was still in use today or not. The other photos are of some of the buildings in town. The town is only a couple blocks along road 49 and 3 or 4 blocks north along the Greeley Hill Road. Actually there is a small settlement of Greeley Hill about 6.5 miles up the hill that is smaller than Coulterville.

I am not sure what the people in this area do for a living as there is not any towns of any size within at least an hours drive. So, where they go every morning I do not know. I can not believe it is to McDonalds for breakfast because I have not seen one in over a hundred miles.

It is off to Yosemite National Park tomorrow.