Catch Gold Fever!

“Catch Gold Fever,” will focus on the rush for GOLD that gripped Sacramento in 1849. Miners, from around the world, rushed in and changed California forever. How did the Gold Rush change Sutter’s Fort? Learn the answer to this question, pan for gold, experience a gold...

By Land & Sea

By Land and Sea, part of our popular Hands on History Program will focus on the different ways immigrants came to California — by land or by sea — while sharing the unique challenges they faced and what daily life was like during their journeys. Visitors...

Frontier Survival Skills

Come learn skills to survive on the frontier!

Traders’ Faire

A Simple Emigrant Christmas

Visit Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park and enjoy a very festive Hands on History event, Simple Emigrant Christmas! At this annual event, visitors will step back in time to the 1850s to enjoy festive holiday traditions from early in California’s history when people...

Frontier Farm to Fork

Visit Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park and enjoy a very special Hands on History event, Frontier Farm to Fork! Fort visitors will have the opportunity to step back in time to the 1840s and learn about the agricultural empire Sutter set out to build at Sutter’s Fort...