Located on Historic Highway 49, Plymouth is in the heart of Gold Country and is the perfect place to stay when visiting the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Amador County's Wine Region.

Amador County is now home to over 30 wineries. Many are situated on scenic back roads in some of the most picturesque rural terrain in California. Most Amador wineries are small family operations.

You are likely to meet the owner and unpretentious hospitality is the norm. While Amador County is justly famous for its Zinfandel wines, new Mediterranean varieties native to Italy and Southern France are beginning to make a fine showing and are becoming common in area tasting rooms.

The town of Plymouth is at the north end of Amador County. In the 1850s Plymouth and nearby Pokerville grew up side by side. The Plymouth Consolidated Mine produces over $13 million in gold. Remaining today is the Empire building, once the mining company's brick office.

North of Plymouth you'll find Nashville, once called Quartzburg, one of California's earliest quartz-mining districts. The first stamp mill in the Mother Lode operated in Nashville.

Plymouth is the site of the Amador County Fairgrounds and is now considered the gateway to the many wineries in the Shenandoah Valley. Accommodations and camping are available.

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