Plan an Adventure

• Take home a gem bag with colorful stones from the gem mining area.
• Learn to pan for gold.
• Provides fun for adults and kids of all ages!

Imagine what you might find...

We will have gold panning demonstrations, and hand on experience, gem bags to clean and search through along with other treasure packages for your enjoyment. Click to follow our updates on Twitter!

Nevada County has long been a lucrative source of precious gold and other collectable stones for years. But few have had the chance to experience so much history and hands-on fun until now. Read about the history of the area through these informative links:

Penn Valley History
Rough & Ready History
More about Rough & Ready

We have one of the only private locations where you can learn to pan for gold in Nevada County and the only location you can search for gemstones from California and around the world.  

You will be given provided a bag of mine material filled with dirt and mine rough stones to search and clean to expose their beauty- rough gems and collectable minerals. 

Whether you are a beginning treasure hunter looking to get started, experienced panning or gem hunter, you will enjoy this event. 

We cannot make any promises on exactly what you will find as your treasures are still covered in dirt, but we can promise you will find a variety and variations of stones and minerals both in color, size and shape. 

All treasure hunters guaranteed to find gem stones, Gold or lovely collectable minerals in every pay dirt panning concentrate bag with a guaranteed gold or gemstones depending on your choice of the treasure bag you chose.