Hotel Leger

Gold Country


A grand and pleasingly old-fashioned place with an impressive galleried frontage and pretty decent food in the restaurant, plus characterful creaky floorboards and a stuck-in-time saloon bar. Get a room on the street side for a view of the picturesque little hillside town of Mokelumne Hill.


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Nearby Gold Country attractions

1. Mokelumne Hill

0.02 MILES

The somewhat undiscovered settlement of Mokelumne Hill is 7 miles south of Jackson just off Hwy 49. Settled by French trappers in the early 1840s, it’s a…

2. Kennedy Gold Mine

6.13 MILES

You can't miss the ominous steel headframe of the mine from the road, rising to 125ft. Its pulleys lifted ore and miners from the bowels of the earth…

3. Knight Foundry

8.18 MILES

In its prime, Sutter Creek was Gold Country’s main supply center for all things forged. Three foundries operating in 1873 made pans and rock crushers, but…

4. Monteverde General Store

8.29 MILES

This building goes back in time to when the general store was the center of the town’s social and economic life, represented by the chairs that circle the…

6. Black Chasm Cavern

10.15 MILES

Less than 1 mile east of Volcano, this National Natural Landmark has the whiff of a tourist trap, but one look at the array of helictite crystals – rare…

7. Amador Whitney Museum

10.31 MILES

This rugged little 1860s building looks like something straight out of a John Ford movie, and houses a replica schoolhouse scene and the obligatory mine…