Yankee Jims Road
Posted by Karen on 05-Jan-2010
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We have been socked in by fog for days and days now and everything is just a dreary gray. So, after going to Roseville to look at a trailer, I just kept driving right on out of town, just trying so desperately to get out of the fog for a bit. Finally, just past Auburn at 2,000 feet elevation… I’m out of the fog and free from the bleak gray for a few hours (hurray!). I explored a few side roads off the freeway and then found Yankee Jims Road, which is a nice 13 mile stretch of graded dirt road that takes you to Foresthill and that sounded like a nice way to spend some time out of the fog, so away I went. I only encountered a couple of other trucks, so it was just a nice pretty drive along the canyon and across the old 1930s Colfax-Foresthill suspension bridge. I stopped and enjoyed a waterfall along the way and then returned back to the grayness of the valley.
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Enjoyed your photos! My folks had a cabin there in the 60s. Ours was across Shirttail Creek. There were about a dozen tucked around and between the bridge and the creek. All the cabin owners were forced to vacate for the Auburn Dam. I believe the Bureau of Reclamation burned them. What a wonderful swimming hole that was below the bridge! I posted some old photos on flickr under ‘Yankee Jims.’ Thank you for posting! BJ Lewis
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Karen Reply:
May 30th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Hi BJ, Thanks for sharing your memories and your old photos (
link to flickr.com). I didn’t realize there were ever cabins up there, but it makes sense they would have been removed for the proposed damn that never was to be. Next time I make it up that way, I’ll have to look around and see if I can find the cabin footings. Ahh, it would be so grand to have a cabin relatively close like that to home, but seem like a million miles away from the city. Have a great Memorial Day holiday!
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