📌 Save this for your next California road trip. Columbia State Historic Park is about 1.5 hours from the Yosemite valley — and it’s one of those stops that makes you wonder why it isn’t on every California road trip list. It’s a fully preserved Gold Rush town from the 1850s. Not a museum. Not a reconstruction. You’re actually walking into the buildings, down the streets, through the history. And it’s completely free to enter. 🕯️ Try the candle dipping — it’s hands-on, old-school, and genuinely