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LocationOR
RegionGrant County
Managed byUS Forest Service - Wallowa Whitman National Forest
Best seasonJune
Entrance feeNo fee is needed for this site.
AccessibilityThe parking area and interpretation display for the site are accessible. Additional information about accessible recreation opportunities in Pacific Northwest National Forests

The Ah Hee Diggins Interpretive Site displays the mining efforts of Chinese miners in the late 1800s and the resulting hand-stacked rock tailings that can be seen from the Elkhorn Drive Scenic Byway. Although the miners could not file their own claims, holders could sell or lease worked-out claims to Chinese owned companies. To pursue their gold mining efforts, the miners muscled rock into piles across 16 acres of the valley to expose the streambed. They used gold pans, rockers and sluice boxes to extract the gold that was missed by previous mining operations from the sediment in the streambed.

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