Middle Cosumnes valley from Peddler Hill 🌄🌌🔭

At the summit of Peddler Hill, along the old gravel road bed of Carson Pass Highway 88 in the central Californian Sierra Nevada, a free Eldorado National Forest disbursed camping area offers stunning views over Lower Bear River Reservoir to the East and to the West across the Cosumnes River all the way down to the Central Valley.

An extensive network of forest roads, trails, and the Mormon Emigrant Trail offer a variety of short and long loops for mountain bikers and hikers.

On clear nights the location is sometimes a meeting place of hobby astronomers with powerful telescopes due to its high altitude and lack of nearby cities' light pollution.

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