Foresthill is a small community that sits proudly among the tall pines of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Located 17 miles northeast of Auburn, it enjoys snowy winters, wonderful restaurants, and year round outdoor recreation in stunningly beautiful surroundings.

Shaded by beautiful conifer groves that lend credence to the name of this town straddled on a ridge between the north and middle forks of the American River, the Placer County community of Foresthill was once at the center of a rich placer area with many gold camps. One of the most prosperous was Yankee Jim's. founded in 1850 by a man named Robinson, who was hanged the following year for horse stealing.

A few miles from Foresthill, Michigan Bluff was another hydraulic mining center; once it was the location of a dry goods store operated by Leland Stanford, who went on to fame as one of the "Big Four" of the transcontinental railroad and later as founder of a great university. Follow the winding Mosquito Ridge Road to the Placer Grove of the sequoia big trees, an isolated small grove of these giants.