Interesting Points along the Way

       Kittridge - 44 miles from Merced. Here a power plant for the San Joaquin Light and Power Company. The wooded hillsides all along the way are scarred here and there. These are mute reminders of the mad gold rush days, when hoping prospectors dug feverishly for the precious metal everywhere in this region. Fortune were quickly made - and lost - in this colorful canyon.